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Mystical Affinities: Female Perspectives on Brakhage

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Channel: TIFF · 2018 · Film & Animation

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Ara Osterweil
Ara Osterweil is a painter, writer, and film scholar. She is also an associate professor of cultural studies and world cinema at McGill University. Her book, Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film, was published in 2014.

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Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof is a Toronto-based filmmaker and scholar. She holds a PhD and Master’s degree in Communication and Culture from York University, and a BAA in media arts from Ryerson University. Her interests as an artist and scholar are interdisciplinary, and her works explore intersections of art, body, and technology. Her experimental cinema has been recognized with numerous awards, commissions, and grants, as well as through over 130 public presentations at major international film festivals, art museums and centres. Pruska-Oldenhof's writing has appeared in academic journals and in anthologies, including chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Screendance (16) and Dance’s Duet with the Camera (16). She is an associate professor at Ryerson University wher she teaches undergraduate courses at the School of Image Arts, and is a member of three graduate programs: Communication and Culture, Documentary Media, and Film + Photographic Preservation Collections Management.

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Kalpana Subramanian
Kalpana Subramanian is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher currently pursuing a PhD in Media Study at the University at Buffalo. In 2006 she received a UK Environmental Film Fellowship, and in 2015–16 she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Brakhage Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. Subramanian’s recent films include the series Light Mediated: Eyes on Brakhage (16) and Tattva (18).

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