Ryan Betschart
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 16 July 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.
Known for
Sound 5
- 2026Tropical Fractals · sound recordist
- 2025A Storm at Sea · music
- 2025A Theory of /Cloud/ · music
- 2025And I Arise (Reprise) · music
- 2023False Expectations · music
Production 7
- 2026Tropical Fractals · associate producer
- 2025A Storm at Sea · producer
- 2025And I Arise (Reprise) · producer
- 2023False Expectations · producer
- 2023kāua - we (you and i) · producer
- 2021Cousins · producer
- 2020婦人 (Fujin) · producer
Directing 21
- 2026Before She Leaves Her Body · director
- 2025A Theory of /Cloud/ · director
- 2025Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10 · director
- 2025Ua 'ike au · director
- 2024kino lau: many bodies · director
- 2023body / negative - everett (feat. Midwife) · director
- 2022An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions · director
- 2021The Flaw in the Crystal · director
- 2021Sun Sonification · director
- 2020The Second Body · director
- 2019A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973 · director
- 2019A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel · director
- 2018There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials · director
- 2018Zablah · director
- 2018Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming · director
- 2018The Mandela Effect · director
- 2017The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar) · director
- 2017Girl Becomes Snow · director
- 2016Paper Chase · director
- 2015Cup of Stars · director
- 2015Pudding · director
Writing 3
- 2025Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10 · writer
- 2019A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973 · writer
- 2018Zablah · writer
Acting 1
- 2015Cup of Stars as Himself