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2025-2026 Academic Year Programs

Mondays from 12-1pm in the Brakhage Center, ATLAS 311

9/22: Kalpana SubramanianÌý
10/20: Erin Espelie
11/10: Stacey Steers
Robert Schaller - Wild Filmmaking: Towards a Sustainable and Humane Practice

October 1st, 4-5 PM, Brakhage Center, Atlas 311

RobertÌýSchallerÌýdiscusses the Handmade Film Institute's efforts to create a path to filmmaking that is physically and economically humane and human-scale, based in scientific and aesthetic understanding. Focusing on what nearly two decades of the Wilderness Film Expedition has revealed about the environmental and infrastructural challenges that face the artist who would work with film, he will share what place-based filmmaking in the wild teaches us about filmmaking, humanity, creativity, and our place in the world.

Tomonari Nishikawa

Wednesday, November 19th, 2 PM, ATLAS 102

In remembrance of Tomonari Nishikawa (1969-2025), we will project several of his 16MM films.

Nishikawa’s films, primarily shot on Super-8 and 16mm, are celebrated for their textured beauty, rhythmic precision, and masterful in-camera editing.ÌýHis films screened at major festivals including Berlinale, Rotterdam, and the New York Film Festival, and were exhibited at MoMA PS1 and the Museum of Contemporary Cinema in Spain. At the time of his passing, he was a beloved professor in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University.

Experimental Wednesdays

4-5 PM Brakhage Center, Atlas 311

September 17, October 15, November 5

View films from Stan Brakhage and many other visionary experimental filmmakers on 16MM. Each screening will feature three short experimental films that clusters around a question.Ìý Screenings will be followed by lively conversation.

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