Biography

Ryan is co-director and head curator of San Diego Underground Film Festival (MovieMaker Magazine Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee), and has programmed for Slamdance Film Festival, taught at CalArts, lectured at SDSU, Stephens College, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and UC San Diego.

Ryan has an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and a BA in Visual Art from UC San Diego.

As a filmmaker Ryan's films have screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Slamdance, Chicago Underground, Florida Film Festival, New Orleans Film festival, Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, Artifact Small Format, Antimatter Media Art, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival, Athens International, Indie Memphis, Montreal Underground, Winnipeg Underground, Portland Underground, Sydney Underground, Arizona Underground, Moviate Underground, among others.

Filmography

all 19

Movies 19

Director 16

Producer 2

self 1

Director

Ryan Betschart

Biography

Filmography

all 19

Movies 19

Director 16

Producer 2

self 1

kino lau: many bodies (2024)

kāua - we (you and i) (2023)

An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions (2022)

The Flaw in the Crystal (2021)

Cousins (2021)

Sun Sonification (2021)

The Second Body (2020)

A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973 (2019)

A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel (2019)

There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials (2018)

Zablah (2018)

Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming (2018)

The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar) (2017)

Girl Becomes Snow (2017)

Paper Chase (2016)

Cup of Stars (2015)

Pudding (2015)

Before She Leaves Her Body

The Mandela Effect

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Birthday1985-07-16 (39 years old)

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Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1985-07-16 (39 years old)