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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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March 27, 2009

Pioneer Species



posted by Brett Kashmere at 13:17