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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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February 09, 2007

FALL/WINTER EVENTS

Sept 7-10 / Copenhagen DENMARK / Made in Video / Screening of Valery's Ankle
Sept 14-18 / Thunder Bay, ON / Bay Street Film Festival / Screening of Valery's Ankle
Sept 22-30 / Victoria, BC / Antimatter Festival / Screening of Valery's Ankle
Oct 5 / Winnipeg, MB / Winnipeg Cinematheque / Screening of How To Be A Canadian
Oct 6 / Winnipeg, MB / WNDX Festival / Screening of unfinished passages
Oct 10 / Regina, SK / R.P.L. Film Theatre / Screening of Valery's Ankle
Oct 14 / Brooklyn, NY / VIDEO_DUMBO / Premiere screening of Tracks + Gestures
Oct 15 / Cornwall on Hudson NY / Hudson Valley Film Festival / Screening of Valery's Ankle
Oct 18-Nov 2 / London ENGLAND / London Film Festival / Screening of unfinished passages
Oct 22 / Saratoga Springs NY / Hudson Valley Film Festival / Screening of Valery's Ankle
Nov 3 / Xalapa MEXICO / Festival de Cine Experimental / Screening of unfinished passages
Nov 7-12 / Kassel, GERMANY / Kassel Documentary Festival / Screening of Valery's Ankle
Nov 9 / Hartford, CT / Hartford Int'l Film Festival / Screening of Valery's Ankle
Nov 11 / Toronto, ON / CineCycle / Premiere of Frames and Leaves
Nov 16 / Syracuse, NY / Thursday Screeners / Screening of Tracks + Gestures
Nov 19 / New York City / Anthology Film Archives / Screening of
Frames and Leaves
Dec 5 / Syracuse, NY / Syracuse University / Class Visit + Screening
Feb 1 / Sherbrooke, QC / Bishop's University / Screening of Tracks + Gestures
Feb 22 / Montreal, QC / Rendez-vous du cinema quebecois / Screening of Valery's Ankle
Feb 23 / Ottawa ON / Club SAW / Screening of Valery's Ankle
Mar 8 / Syracuse, NY / The Redhouse / Screening of Winter Light
Mar 22 / Saskatoon SK / Documentary Reframed / Screening of When Canadians Attack
Mar 24 / Syracuse, NY / Funk'n Waffles / Syracuse One Take Super8 Event
Apr 5-14 / Toronto, ON / Images Festival / Screening of Valery's Ankle
Apr 13 / Portland, ME / Zero Station / Syracuse-Portland One Take Super 8 Event
Apr 16-22 / Syracuse, NY / Syracuse Int'l Film Festival / Screening of Valery's Ankle
Apr 20-22 / Victoria, BC / Canada & the League of Hockey Nations / Presentation
Apr 24 / Portland, OR / Cinema Project / Brett Kashmere: Carte Blanche du Canada
Apr 29 / Portland, OR / PDX Film Festival / Screening of
Valery's Ankle