**This event will not take place at UnionDocs, but at the Filmmakers Coop (475 Park Ave S, New York, NY)**

In conjunction with our event Can The Addict Speak?, FMC welcomes Scholar and Filmmaker Kalpana Subramanian. Subramanian to present her films from her series “Light Mediated: Eyes on Brakhage” as well as her new Tattva. Subramanian will also screen works from FMC’s archives with films by Brakhage, Sharits, Schneemann, and more.

RSVP required:
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This event is FREE and open to the public.

Kalpana Subramanian is an artist-filmmaker, educator and a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo (SUNY). She uses transcultural and interdisciplinary modes of inquiry into the philosophy and aesthetics of experimental film and media. In 2015 she was a Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow at the Brakhage Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her recent films include the five-part series Light Mediated: Eyes on Brakhage (2016), Tattva (2018) and Choreography for Disembodiment (2019). She is a member of the Substantial Motion an international research network, founded by Azadeh Emadi and Laura U. Marks for scholars and practitioners interested in cross-cultural exploration of media art and philosophy.