Brakhage Center Newsletter - February 8, 2023

Through symposia, conferences, screenings, panels, presentations, exhibitions, residencies, and other activities, the Center features the works of past, current, and future artistic innovators. These activities also provide a dynamic platform for discussion among artists, scholars, curators, and students.

• Spring 2023 Visiting Curator Series: Social Justice in Film
  Part of the Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Speaker Series on visual media, justice and human rights, this series is hosted by the College of Media, Communication and Information at CU Boulder and supported by the Brakhage Center for Media Arts, the Center for Humanities and the Arts, the Department of English, American Indian Law Clinic and the Department of Ethnic Studies.
   
• Experimental Wednesdays
  Every Wednesday during the Spring 2023 semester come enjoy short films and conversations with fellow film lovers in the Brakhage Center, Atlas 311

Guha Shankar: “One More River to Cross”

Monday, February 20 at 5 pm 
Atlas 311

The Brakhage Center is excited to begin its Spring Visiting Curator series with an event hosted by Guha Shankar, of the Civil Rights History Project and American Folklife Center. Shankar will be sharing works of civil rights activist and progressive filmmaker Glen Pearcy, whose work includes One More River to Cross, an incisive documentary exploration of iniquities in the justice system produced during the Southwest Georgia Project of 1968, as well as discussing his role as project curator and archivist

Guha Shankar, folklife specialist and co-director of the Civil Rights History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. He serves as project coordinator of Ancestral Voices, a collaborative curatorial initiative with indigenous communities and co-directs the national Civil Rights History Project. Shankar also teaches documentary field methods in university and community settings, writes for a range of publications, and provides research and reference assistance to a variety of patrons. His research interests include diasporic community formations in the Caribbean, ethnographic media, visual representation, and performance studies.

Image: Pearcy, “One More River to Cross”

Jesse Lerner
March 13 at 5 pm
Atlas 311

Jesse Lerner is a documentary film and video maker, professor, curator, and writer based in Los Angeles. His work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Sydney Biennale, the Sundance Film Festival, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, the Los Angeles International Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and other festivals and museums internationally.

Amalia Cordova
April 10 at 5 pm
Atlas 311

Amalia Cordova is the supervisory museum curator and chair of research and education for the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution. Amalia Córdova is a filmmaker, curator and scholar specializing in Indigenous film. She is a former Latin American specialist for the Film + Video Center of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, has served as Assistant Director of New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and has taught at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She has published extensively on Latin American Indigenous film and video, and on the circulation of Indigenous cinema.

Experimental Wednesdays begin at noon
Location: Atlas 311

Come enjoy short films and conversations with fellow film lovers in the Brakhage Center, Atlas 311

Spring semester 2023 dates:
JANUARY >>  25
FEBRUARY >> 1, 8, 15, 22
MARCH >>  1, 8, 15, 22
APRIL >>  5, 12, 19, 26
MAY >>  3