Post Screening Q&A with Kalpana Subramanian and Shira Segal

Join us at the Brattle Theatre for a special screening of works, Between Breaths, Films by Kalpana Subramanian – an artist-filmmaker, scholar of experimental film and media and Assistant Professor at the Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Her current research investigates the poetics of breath in experimental film using a transcultural and interdisciplinary approach. Her work has been supported by grants including a Humanities Institute Advanced PhD Fellowship (University at Buffalo, 2022-23), the UK Environmental Film Fellowship (2006) and the Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (University of Colorado Boulder, 2015-16). Her films have been presented at venues including the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Interfilm Berlin, National Gallery of Modern Art (Mumbai, India), UNESCO (France), Antimatter Media Arts (Canada), Asia Society, Union Docs and Flaherty NYC Seminar (USA) among others. She has received awards for her films at the Documentary Festival of History and Archeology (Perugia, Italy, 2015), Montana CINE International Film Festival (2003, 2005) and CMS Vatavaran (2008). Her curated film programs have been screened at the Alternative cinema series (Colgate University, USA), Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (UK) and Simon Fraser University (Canada) among others.

Program:

The Maze of Lanes | 2002 | 7 minutes

Incantation | 1994 | 9 minutes

woolgathering | 2020 | 4 minutes

Tattva | 2018 | 5 minutes

Light Mediated Series

Liquid is Light | 2016 | 4 minutes

Empyrean | 2016 | 7 minutes

Light Rooms | 2016 | 2 minutes

Prismatic Resonance | 2016 | 13 minutes

A Dialogue of Dissonance | 2016 | 7 minutes

Strange Duet | 2026 | 5 minutes

Please visit revolutionsperminutefest.org for more information.

Revolutions per Minute Festival (RPM Fest) is dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, experimental film, essay film, animation, documentary, video and audiovisual performance, and is co-hosted by Art and Art History Department and Cinema Studies at UMass-Boston, Brattle Theatre in Cambridge & Harvard FAS CAMLab.

Brattle Passes Accepted