About

Known credits:
36
Birthday:
1985-07-16
Place of birth:
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Website:
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Ryan Betschart

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting
2015 Cup of Stars Actor Himself N/A
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Directing
2025 A Theory of /Cloud/ Directing Director N/A
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2025 Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10 Directing Director N/A
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2025 Ua 'ike au Directing Director N/A
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2024 kino lau: many bodies Directing Director N/A
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2023 body / negative - everett (feat. Midwife) Directing Director N/A
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2022 An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions Directing Director N/A
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2021 The Flaw in the Crystal Directing Director N/A
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2021 Sun Sonification Directing Director N/A
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2020 The Second Body Directing Director N/A
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2019 A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973 Directing Director N/A
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2019 A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel Directing Director N/A
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2018 There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials Directing Director N/A
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2018 Zablah Directing Director N/A
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2018 Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming Directing Director N/A
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2018 The Mandela Effect Directing Director N/A
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2017 The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar) Directing Director N/A
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2017 Girl Becomes Snow Directing Director N/A
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2016 Paper Chase Directing Director N/A
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2015 Cup of Stars Directing Director N/A
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2015 Pudding Directing Director N/A
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Before She Leaves Her Body Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2025 Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10 Writing Writer N/A
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2019 A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973 Writing Writer N/A
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2018 Zablah Writing Writer N/A
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Production
2025 A Storm at Sea Production Producer N/A
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2025 And I Arise (Reprise) Production Producer N/A
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2023 False Expectations Production Producer 58
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2023 kāua - we (you and i) Production Producer N/A
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2021 Cousins Production Producer N/A
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2020 婦人 (Fujin) Production Producer N/A
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Fractais Tropicais Production Producer N/A
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Sound
2025 A Theory of /Cloud/ Sound Music N/A
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2025 A Storm at Sea Sound Music N/A
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2025 And I Arise (Reprise) Sound Music N/A
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2023 False Expectations Sound Music 58
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