Ryan Betschart
Directing
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.
Behind the camera
2025Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10
Director & Writer
2025A Theory of /Cloud/
Director
2025Ua 'ike au
Director
2024kino lau: many bodies
Director
2023body / negative - everett (feat. Midwife)
Director
2022An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions
Director
2021The Flaw in the Crystal
Director
2021Sun Sonification
Director
2020The Second Body
Director
2019A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel
Director
2019A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973
Director & Writer
2018The Mandela Effect
Director
2018There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials
Director
2018Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming
Director
2018Zablah
Director & Writer
2017The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)
Director
2017Girl Becomes Snow
Director
2016Paper Chase
Director
2015Cup of Stars
Director
2015Pudding
Director