Fall 2025 Luncheon Series
Mondays from 12-1pm in the Brakhage Center, ATLAS 311
9/22: Kalpana Subramanian
Kalpana Subramanian (Ph.D. University at Buffalo, State University of New York) is an artist, filmmaker, and scholar interested in transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches to film and media. Over the course of her career she has produced a diverse body of work spanning film and video art, photography, interactive media and music. Her recent work investigates experimental cinema through perspectives of embodiment from the Global South. Her practice-based doctoral research at the Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo, proposes an alternative framework of cinematic inquiry and praxis that she defines as a ‘‘Cinema of Breath.’ Her work has been presented in over 23 countries and has received various awards and honors. Venues include the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Images Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Flaherty NYC Seminar, UNESCO (France), Wildscreen UK, and National Gallery of Modern Art (Mumbai, India) among others.
10/20: Erin Espelie
Erin Espelie is a writer, editor, and filmmaker whose work connects with current scientific research, questions of epistemology, environmental precarity, and fallout from an increasingly image saturated culture. Her poetic, nonfiction films have shown at the New York Film Festival, the British Film Institute's London Film Festival, the Whitechapel Gallery, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Crossroads Film Festival at SFMoMA, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Imagine Science Film Festival, and more. Her feature-length film,ÌýThe Lanthanide Series,Ìýpremiered at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen and won the grand prize at the Seoul International New Media Festival in 2015; an interview about the film appears inÌýÌý(Oxford University Press, 2019).
11/10: Stacey Steers
Stacey’s animated short films have been screened throughout the U.S. and abroad and have received numerous awards. Her work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Locarno International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New Directors New Films, New York, MoMA, The Lincoln Center, New York City, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Past solo exhibitions include the Centre de Cultura Contemporà nia, Barcelona; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York; Denver Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; BMoCA, Boulder, Colorado; and the Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal.