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A B O U T
Brett Kashmere is a Pittsburgh-based filmmaker, curator, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA.
His work combines traditional research methods with hybrid interfaces,
handmade equipment, and materialist aesthetics. Through intricate experimental documentaries and unadorned camera movies, Kashmere explores
the intersection of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, and the politics of representation. His films, videos and scholarship
have been presented at festivals, conferences and venues internationally and used in university curricula. The film scholar Thomas Waugh writes that
Kashmere’s essay-film Valery’s Ankle, about the contradiction of hockey violence and Canadian identity,
“may well give momentum (and integrity) to the discourses
of sports, masculinity, and nationalism in Canadian cinemas.”
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N E W S
An article I co-wrote with Astria Suparak about Canadian live cinema practices is now available on my
website here.
It will also be published in forthcoming volume, Cinematograph 7: Live Cinema, edited by Thomas Beard.
I'm currently writing an essay about Garine Torossian's collage film Sparklehorse for an anthology on Torossian's work being produced
by the Canadian Film Institute.
"Counter-Archive," the second issue of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics
is in production and should be available in May 2010. Watch for upcoming launch parties in Oberlin, Pittsburgh, and elsewhere.
Also, Valery's Ankle will soon be available for online viewing via the Hot Docs Doc Library.
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Syracuse Experimental presents THE OPEN SCREEN
 June 3rd, Sunday @ 7pm
The White Warehouse, aka The Big Sugar Cube
200 South Geddes Street at West Fayette
Syracuse, New York
BYOFV! (Bring Your Own Film / Video)
Make sure your work is cued, maximum 10 minutes in length, first come first screened. Accepted formats: 16MM, SUPER 8, DVD, VHS, cassettes. Refreshments will be available, but BYOB as well.
"The Open Screen" is an informal forum for local filmmakers and video artists presented in conjunction with a region wide arts collaboration, including the opening of Lipe Art Park, the exhibition ReZist!, and an open house in the White Warehouse / Arts Building.
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SYRACUSE EXPERIMENTAL Film & Media Workshop
A cooperative of artists and educators working to promote and encourage the creation (through experimentation) of film and media as an art form. Info: syracusefilmworkshop@yahoo.com
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June 3rd, Sunday @ 7pm
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