Ryan Betschart

Birthday:: 07/16/1985
Biography:: 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.

Credits

	Cup of Stars (2015) as Himself

	Fractais Tropicais (2026) Associate Producer
	Fractais Tropicais (2026) Sound Recordist
	A Storm at Sea (2025) Producer
	A Storm at Sea (2025) Music
	A Theory of /Cloud/ (2025) Director
	A Theory of /Cloud/ (2025) Music
	Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10 (2025) Director
	Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10 (2025) Writer
	Ua 'ike au (2025) Director
	And I Arise (Reprise) (2025) Producer
	And I Arise (Reprise) (2025) Music
	kino lau: many bodies (2024) Director
	body / negative - everett (feat. Midwife) (2023) Director
	False Expectations (2023) Music
	False Expectations (2023) 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
	A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973 (2019) 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) Director
	Zablah (2018) Writer
	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
	Paper Chase (2016) Director
	Cup of Stars (2015) Director
	Pudding (2015) Director
	Before She Leaves Her Body () Director