Brakhage Center Lunch Series - Tara Knight

Tara Knight is a filmmaker, animator, and media designer for live performance. Her broad range of media practices includes animated shorts, dance collaborations, world-premiere projection designs, visual reality, and media installations. Recently, her virtual reality “Sound Planetarium” project appeared at the American Astronomy Society, “the desire of a body” at Dance on Camera in NYC, and “Unsettled” at the Ottawa, Annecy, and Zagreb Animation Festivals with a Director’s Citation from the Thomas Edison Film Festival. Knight has collaboratively created over two dozen short, improvised, award-winning dance films including documenting the “Think Gravity Dance Tank” an intergenerational research gathering in 2022 through a dozen films, audio interviews, and more. Projection design for live performance includes “The Great Wave” (The Berkeley Rep, 2019), “Ballast” (Diversionary Theater, 2017), and “Hollywood!” (La Jolla Playhouse, 2016). “The Floating World”, a performance she co-created with Malashock Dance, was awarded an Emmy in 2011.

Lunches welcome, beverages provided