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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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PAST SCREENINGS
 unfinished passages @
Silent Speed Film Festival
Seattle, WA / USA / July 29, 2005
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unfinished passages @
Faucet Media Arts Festival
Sackville, NB / CANADA / Aug 18-21, 2005------------------------------------------------------
unfinished passages @ Lukusz Film Festival
Krsko / SLOVENIA / September 2-3, 2005
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unfinished passages @ Antimatter Underground Film Festival
Victoria, BC / CANADA / September 15-24, 2005
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unfinished passages @ Regina Festival of Cinematic Arts
Regina, SK / CANADA / September 16-18, 2005
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Industry: Selected Works @ Gallery Ssamzie /// Seoul Film Festival
Seoul / KOREA / August 31-September 15, 2005
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When Canadians Attack @ Calgary International Film Festival
Calgary, AB / CANADA / September 23-October 1, 2005--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rental information: http://www.videopool.org
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