Ryan Betschart
Directing
- Born
- July 16, 1985 (age 41)
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.
Read moreShow less
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.
Known for
False Expectations
May 20, 2023
An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions
April 1, 2022
kāua - we (you and i)
March 2, 2023
The Flaw in the Crystal
October 22, 2021
Sun Sonification
September 1, 2021
Cousins
October 16, 2021
kino lau: many bodies
March 27, 2024
The Mandela Effect
January 1, 2018
The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)
April 9, 2017
A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel
March 8, 2019
Cup of Stars
October 15, 2015
A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973
March 24, 2019
Behind the camera27
- 2026Tropical Fractals Associate Producer, Sound Recordist
- 2025A Theory of /Cloud/ Director, Music
- 2025A Storm at Sea Producer, Music
- 2025Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10 Director, Writer
- 2025Ua 'ike au Director
- 2025And I Arise (Reprise) Producer, Music
- 2024kino lau: many bodies Director
- 2023body / negative - everett (feat. Midwife) Director
- 2023False Expectations Music, Producer
- 2023