Person

Ryan Betschart

Directing · Born 1985-07-16

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.

• 

  Tropical Fractals

  Associate Producer

• 

  False Expectations

  Music

• 

  Sun Sonification

  Director

• 

  婦人 (Fujin)

  Producer

• 

  Pudding

  Director

• 

  Paper Chase

  Director

• 

  Girl Becomes Snow

  Director

• 

  A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973

  Director

• 

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

  Director

• 

  Cousins

  Producer

• 2026Tropical FractalsAssociate Producer
• 2025A Theory of /Cloud/Director
• 2025A Storm at SeaProducer
• 2025Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10Director
• 2025Ua 'ike auDirector
• 2025And I Arise (Reprise)Producer
• 2024kino lau: many bodiesDirector
• 2023body / negative - everett (feat. Midwife)Director
• 2023False ExpectationsMusic
• 2023kāua - we (you and i)Producer
• 2022An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory ConditionsDirector
• 2021The Flaw in the CrystalDirector
• 2021CousinsProducer
• 2021Sun SonificationDirector
• 2020The Second BodyDirector
• 2020婦人 (Fujin)Producer
• 2019A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973Director
• 2019A Collection of Attempts in Astral TravelDirector
• 2018There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building MaterialsDirector
• 2018ZablahDirector
• 2018Towards the Experimental Control of DreamingDirector
• 2018The Mandela EffectDirector
• 2017The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)Director
• 2017Girl Becomes SnowDirector
• 2016Paper ChaseDirector
• 2015Cup of StarsHimself
• 2015PuddingDirector
• —Before She Leaves Her BodyDirector