Ryan Betschart

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Ryan is co-director and head curator of San Diego Underground Film Festival (MovieMaker Magazine Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee), has programmed for Slamdance Film Festival, has taught Adjunct at CalArts, and is currently a Lecturer at UC San Diego in the Cinematic Arts Program. His films have screened at Fantasia, Slamdance, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Porto Post/Doc, Hammer Museum, REDCAT, Desert Daze, and have won awards at Slamdance, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Indie Memphis, Arizona Underground. His band Shrine Maiden's album And I Arise was named one the Top 10 Experimental Albums of 2020 by Outtallectuals zine. Their 4th album is due out October 31st 2025 on Whited Sepulchre Records. Ryan holds an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and a BA in Visual Art from UC San Diego.

Date of Birth

Jul 16, 1985

Gender

Male

Homepage

http://ryanbetschart.com

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Known for

A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973

2019

Cup of Stars

2015

4 min

Girl Becomes Snow

2017

8 min

Pudding

2015

1 min

A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel

2019

7 min

The Second Body

2020

3 min

Paper Chase

2016

2 min

Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming

2018

2 min

The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)

2017

4 min

There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials

2018

4 min

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A Theory of /Cloud/

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Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10

20256 min

Ua 'ike au

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kino lau: many bodies

202430 min

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