Director
Ryan Betschart
41 years · 25 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 25
A Theory of /Cloud/
2025 · Director, Music
A Storm at Sea
2025 · Producer, Music
Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10
2025 · Director, Writer
Ua 'ike au
2025 · Director
And I Arise (Reprise)
2025 · Producer, Music
kino lau: many bodies
2024 · Director
body / negative - everett (feat. Midwife)
2023 · Director
False Expectations
2023 · Music, Producer
kāua - we (you and i)
2023 · Producer
An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions
2022 · Director
The Flaw in the Crystal
2021 · Director
Cousins
2021 · Producer
Sun Sonification
2021 · Director
The Second Body
2020 · Director
婦人 (Fujin)
2020 · Producer
A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973
2019 · Director, Writer
A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel
2019 · Director
There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials
2018 · Director
Zablah
2018 · Writer, Director
Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming
2018 · Director
The Mandela Effect
2018 · Director
The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)
2017 · Director
Girl Becomes Snow
2017 · Director
Cup of Stars
2015 · Himself, Director