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Ryan Betschart (b. 1985)

Born:
July 16, 1985

Biography from TheMovieDB

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..

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Director:
2015  Cup of Stars
2015  Pudding
2016  Paper Chase
2017  Girl Becomes Snow
2017  The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)
2018  There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials
2018  Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming
2018  Zablah
2019  A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel
2019  A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973
2020  The Second Body
2021  Sun Sonification
2021  The Flaw in the Crystal
2022  An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions
2024  kino lau: many bodies
????  Before She Leaves Her Body
????  The Mandela Effect

Producer:
2015  Cup of Stars
2015  Pudding
2016  Paper Chase
2017  Girl Becomes Snow
2017  The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)
2018  There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials
2018  Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming
2018  Zablah
2019  A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel
2019  A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973
2020  The Second Body
2021  Cousins
2021  Sun Sonification
2021  The Flaw in the Crystal
2022  An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions
2023  kāua - we (you and i)
2024  kino lau: many bodies
????  Before She Leaves Her Body
????  The Mandela Effect

Writer:
2015  Cup of Stars
2015  Pudding
2016  Paper Chase
2017  Girl Becomes Snow
2017  The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)
2018  There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials
2018  Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming
2018  Zablah
2019  A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel
2019  A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973
2020  The Second Body
2021  Cousins
2021  Sun Sonification
2021  The Flaw in the Crystal
2022  An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions
2023  kāua - we (you and i)
2024  kino lau: many bodies
????  Before She Leaves Her Body
????  The Mandela Effect

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  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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