Ryan Betschart
Directing
Born July 16, 1985
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.
Directed (21)
A Theory of /Cloud/
2025
Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10
2025
Ua 'ike au
2025
kino lau: many bodies
2024
body / negative - everett (feat. Midwife)
2023
An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions
2022
The Flaw in the Crystal
2021
Sun Sonification
2021
The Second Body
2020
A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973
2019
A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel
2019
There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials
2018
Zablah
2018
Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming
2018
The Mandela Effect
2018
The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)
2017
Girl Becomes Snow
2017
Paper Chase
2016
Cup of Stars
2015
Pudding
2015
Before She Leaves Her Body