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Annette Daniels-Taylor’s (MFA), is featured in Buffalo Spree Magazine for her new book, Dreams on Fire

This programme of works by female filmmakers made in response to Brakhage will be introduced by two presentations. Kalpana Subramanian will talk about her recent films and research — which uses a transcultural and interdisciplinary lens to examine Brakhage’s radical experimentations with light and its relationship with embodiment and breath — while Ara Osterweil, author of the recent study Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film, will further discuss the charged and sometimes fraught friendship between Brakhage and Carolee Schneemann.

The Buffalo International Film Festival 2018 is just around the corner – Thursday, October 4 – 8. Just another cultural offering this city has to offer, right? But did you know that the festival ABOUNDS WITH THE WORK OF UB MEDIA STUDY STUDENTS AND ALUMS??

Videotheque
Friday July 27
8:00 pm
Harder Hall, Alfred University

Blessing (working title) is an Augmented Reality application for smart phones… And who doesn’t need a blessing now and again? The application augments your camera feed with a virtual character  who blesses you with gesture and audio-visual shower.

Margaret Rhee, visiting assistant professor of media study at the University at Buffalo, has been nominated for the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s 2018 Elgin Award for her book “Love, Robot,” a collection of poems that explores a world in which robots and humans fall in and out of love.

“Find Me” is a 24 minute experimental narrative, non-dialogue short film that follows the journey of a girl who reflects on the past in memorialized spaces of family land.

Professor Josephine Anstey’s project Improvising Consciousness has been shortlisted for the 2018 Opening Up Digital Fiction Writing Competition from Wonderbox Publishing and is now open for voting for the People’s Choice award!