Curated programs
The following curated programs showcase the work of experimental filmmakers and artists in both historical and contemporary contexts, exploring various themes, perspectives, practices and approaches to filmmaking.
Image: Light Color and Water (Jon Behrens, 1987)
Personal Road Movies
Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA, September 23, 2023
Book launch of Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video (Brill, 2023)
Photo: Craig Baldwin and Kornelia Boczkowska
Lost Highways, Embodied Travels
UnionDocs, New York, NY, December 7, 2023
Book launch of Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video (Brill, 2023)
Photo: Jessica Bardsley, Anne Deborah Levy, Bill Morrison and Kornelia Boczkowska
An Animal Is Not A Metaphor
62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, March 30, 2024
Supported by the AAFF & the National Science Center, Poland, under the project An animal is not a metaphor: Animals and human-animal relations in American experimental ecocinema (grant no. 2023/49/B/HS2/00653)
From West to East: Canyon Cinema Meets the Coop
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York, NY, June 7, 2024 (co-curated with Dominic Angerame)
Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Kornelia’s Interaktive Eco-Kino
Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA, September 14, 2024
Supported by Other Cinema & the National Science Center, Poland, under the project An animal is not a metaphor: Animals and human-animal relations in American experimental ecocinema (grant no. 2023/49/B/HS2/00653)
Photo: Dominic Angerame, Toney Merritt, Scott Stark and Kornelia Boczkowska
KINO CRITTERS: Kornelia Boczkowska’s Animal Show
Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA, September 13, 2025
Supported by Other Cinema & the National Science Center, Poland, under the project An animal is not a metaphor: Animals and human-animal relations in American experimental ecocinema (grant no. 2023/49/B/HS2/00653)
Photo: Dominic Angerame, Toney Merritt and Kornelia Boczkowska
Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Memorial
Curated by Kornelia Boczkowska
Commissioned and sponsored by Caryn Cline from the Interbay Cinema Society
Analog Dreaming is a series of memorial programs commemorating the legacy of Seattle based filmmaker Jon Behrens. Different versions of the program were presented in eight venues in the United States and Europe in 2024-2025.
Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Revisited
19th Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque, NM, April 26, 2024
Photo: Caryn Cline, Bryan Konefsky, Kornelia Boczkowska and the attendees of the EIC festival
Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Revisited 2
Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA, September 8, 2024
Photo: Kornelia Boczkowska and the audience at Shapeshifters
Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Memorial Program
Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Fine Arts Poznan, February 12, 2025
Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens
RPM Festival hosted by UMass-Boston, Boston City Hall, February 26, 2025
Photo: Caryn Cline, Kathryn Ramey and Kornelia Boczkowska
Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Memorial
63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, March 26, 2025
Photo: Caryn Cline and Kornelia Boczkowska
Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Memorial Program
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York, NY, February 28, 2025
Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Memorial Program
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, May 3, 2025
Photo: Caryn Cline, Kornelia Boczkowska and the audience in the Northwest Film Forum
Off Center: Analog Dreaming
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL, September 29, 2025 (presented online)
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