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Ryan Betschart
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,…
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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.
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2026
Tropical Fractals
Movie Associate Producer
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2025
A Storm at Sea
Movie Producer
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2025
A Theory of /Cloud/
Movie Director
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2025
Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10
Movie Director
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2025
Ua 'ike au
Movie Director
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2025
And I Arise (Reprise)
Movie Producer
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2024
kino lau: many bodies
Movie Director
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2023
body / negative - everett (feat. Midwife)
Movie Director
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2023
False Expectations
Movie Music
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2023
kāua - we (you and i)
Movie Producer
- 2022
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2021
The Flaw in the Crystal
Movie Director
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2021
Cousins
Movie Producer
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2021
Sun Sonification
Movie Director
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2020
The Second Body
Movie Director
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2020
婦人 (Fujin)
Movie Producer
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2019
A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973
Movie Director
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2019
A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel
Movie Director
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2018
There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials
Movie Director
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2018
Zablah
Movie Director
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2018
Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming
Movie Director
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2018
The Mandela Effect
Movie Director
- 2017
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2017
Girl Becomes Snow
Movie Director
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2015
Cup of Stars
Movie Himself
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2015
Pudding
Movie Director
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Before She Leaves Her Body
Movie Director
