EDUCATION
Ph.D. Media and Communications
European Graduate School, 2011
Saas-Fee, Switzerland
Primary Area: Film Theory
Seminars: Judith Butler, Avital Ronell, Peter Greenaway, Siegfried Zielinski, Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Barbara Hammer, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Balso, Christopher Fynsk
Summer Residencies August 2006 & 2007: Saas-Fee, Switzerland
Dissertation: “No Future Now: A Nomadology of Resistance and Subversion”
Committee: Dr. Wolfgang Schirmacher (chair), Sigrid Hackenberg, Michael Anker
M.F.A. Filmmaking
San Francisco Art Institute, 2004
San Francisco, California
Areas of Specialization: 16mm + Super 8, hand-processing, optical printing, motion graphics, sound design
Seminars: Jay Rosenblatt, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Guy Sherwin, Jayne Parker, George Kuchar,
Ernie Gehr, Steve Anker, Craig Baldwin, SILT Collective, Jeannene Przyblyski, Chris Kraus
B.F.A. Photography
Ohio University, 1999
Athens, Ohio
Cum Laude
Minor: Film Studies
Seminars: Eva Enderlein, Christine Heindl, Ruth Bradley, Rajko Grlić, Pavel Banka, Dan Williams, Julie White
Areas of Specialization: alternative processes, 4x5, hand processing, studio work, experimental film
European Graduate School, 2011
Saas-Fee, Switzerland
Primary Area: Film Theory
Seminars: Judith Butler, Avital Ronell, Peter Greenaway, Siegfried Zielinski, Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Barbara Hammer, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Balso, Christopher Fynsk
Summer Residencies August 2006 & 2007: Saas-Fee, Switzerland
Dissertation: “No Future Now: A Nomadology of Resistance and Subversion”
Committee: Dr. Wolfgang Schirmacher (chair), Sigrid Hackenberg, Michael Anker
M.F.A. Filmmaking
San Francisco Art Institute, 2004
San Francisco, California
Areas of Specialization: 16mm + Super 8, hand-processing, optical printing, motion graphics, sound design
Seminars: Jay Rosenblatt, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Guy Sherwin, Jayne Parker, George Kuchar,
Ernie Gehr, Steve Anker, Craig Baldwin, SILT Collective, Jeannene Przyblyski, Chris Kraus
B.F.A. Photography
Ohio University, 1999
Athens, Ohio
Cum Laude
Minor: Film Studies
Seminars: Eva Enderlein, Christine Heindl, Ruth Bradley, Rajko Grlić, Pavel Banka, Dan Williams, Julie White
Areas of Specialization: alternative processes, 4x5, hand processing, studio work, experimental film
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Books
with Kym Farmen. New Musick: A Realigned Foundation of Magick, History and Art. Delere Press: Singapore, 2021. Print.
No Future Now: A Nomadology of Resistance and Subversion. Atropos Press: New York, 2012. Print.
Refereed Articles
“The Devil Made Me Do It. The Innovation and Influence of Benjamin Christensen's Häxan.” Abraxas Special Issue #2: Luminous Screen The Influence of the Esoteric in Cinema.. Ed. Jack Sargeant. Fulgur Esoterica: London. 2014. Print.
Information Articles
"Lynne Ramsay: Outsider Auteur." SCAN Journal of Media Arts Culture Special REVcon Academic 2012 Issue. Eds. Jack Sargeant and Alex Munt. Macquire University: Sydney. Volume 10 Number 1, January 2013. Web.
Interviews
Interview with Leah Meyerhoff Writer and Director of I Believe in Unicorns. agnès films. August 9, 2015. Web.
Reviews
"Review of Leah Meyerhoff's I Believe in Unicorns." agnès films. August 12, 2015. Web.
"Review of Ruth Novaczek's The New World." agnès films. Web. June 22, 2014. Web.
"Review of Sini Anderson's The Punk Singer." agnès films. December 17, 2013. Web.
"Review of Sally Potter's Ginger and Rosa." agnès films. October 9, 2013. Web.
“The Incredible Melancholia of Lars von Trier.” Peripheral Offerings. January 11, 2012. Web.
Catalog Pieces and Program Notes
36th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival program. What’s in a Name. Frameline: San Francisco. 2012. Print.
33rd San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival program. Frameline Award - George and Mike Kuchar, Queer Notes from Underground Cinema 1960s-1970s, It Came From Kuchar, Thundercrack!, Canyon Cinema’s Queer Underground. Frameline: San Francisco. 2009. Print.
32nd San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival program. A Horse is Not a Metaphor, Sanctus, Vital Signs. Frameline: San Francisco. 2008. Print.
Editorial Work
"A Materialist Film Practice in the Digital Age." Janis Crystal Lipzin. agnès films. October 14, 2013. Web.
"Time Present - reflections on the art of Gunvor Nelson." Janis Crystal Lipzin. agnès films. July 31, 2013. Web.
“Fighting Modern Loneliness Together: Groups of Women in Pedro Almodóvar’s Films.” Bridget Carls. agnès films. March 1, 2012. Web.
“Interview with Dorothy Arzner.” Karyn Kay and Gerald Peary. agnès films. July 17, 2011. Web.
with Kym Farmen. New Musick: A Realigned Foundation of Magick, History and Art. Delere Press: Singapore, 2021. Print.
No Future Now: A Nomadology of Resistance and Subversion. Atropos Press: New York, 2012. Print.
Refereed Articles
“The Devil Made Me Do It. The Innovation and Influence of Benjamin Christensen's Häxan.” Abraxas Special Issue #2: Luminous Screen The Influence of the Esoteric in Cinema.. Ed. Jack Sargeant. Fulgur Esoterica: London. 2014. Print.
Information Articles
"Lynne Ramsay: Outsider Auteur." SCAN Journal of Media Arts Culture Special REVcon Academic 2012 Issue. Eds. Jack Sargeant and Alex Munt. Macquire University: Sydney. Volume 10 Number 1, January 2013. Web.
Interviews
Interview with Leah Meyerhoff Writer and Director of I Believe in Unicorns. agnès films. August 9, 2015. Web.
Reviews
"Review of Leah Meyerhoff's I Believe in Unicorns." agnès films. August 12, 2015. Web.
"Review of Ruth Novaczek's The New World." agnès films. Web. June 22, 2014. Web.
"Review of Sini Anderson's The Punk Singer." agnès films. December 17, 2013. Web.
"Review of Sally Potter's Ginger and Rosa." agnès films. October 9, 2013. Web.
“The Incredible Melancholia of Lars von Trier.” Peripheral Offerings. January 11, 2012. Web.
Catalog Pieces and Program Notes
36th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival program. What’s in a Name. Frameline: San Francisco. 2012. Print.
33rd San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival program. Frameline Award - George and Mike Kuchar, Queer Notes from Underground Cinema 1960s-1970s, It Came From Kuchar, Thundercrack!, Canyon Cinema’s Queer Underground. Frameline: San Francisco. 2009. Print.
32nd San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival program. A Horse is Not a Metaphor, Sanctus, Vital Signs. Frameline: San Francisco. 2008. Print.
Editorial Work
"A Materialist Film Practice in the Digital Age." Janis Crystal Lipzin. agnès films. October 14, 2013. Web.
"Time Present - reflections on the art of Gunvor Nelson." Janis Crystal Lipzin. agnès films. July 31, 2013. Web.
“Fighting Modern Loneliness Together: Groups of Women in Pedro Almodóvar’s Films.” Bridget Carls. agnès films. March 1, 2012. Web.
“Interview with Dorothy Arzner.” Karyn Kay and Gerald Peary. agnès films. July 17, 2011. Web.
EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVE FILM PRODUCTION
Devil’s Dairymaid 16mm 7:30 min. B&W Sound (2009)
(Collaboration with Kym Farmen)
A dairymaid is lured into a dark forest by mischievous and ominous spirits. She discovers a magical churn in a clearing and churns until she becomes “electrified.”
Festival Screenings
Athens International Film & Video Festival Athens, Ohio Best Experimental Film 2009
“Canyon Cinema’s Queer Underground” San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival San Francisco, California 2009
Perv Queerotic Film Festival, Australia Finalist 2009
Conference Screenings
Desiring Just Economies/Just Economies of Desire “Oh Economy, Up Yours!” Berlin, Germany 2010
Queer/Feminist Critiques of the Economy and Capitalism Conference “Oh Economy, Up Yours!” Berlin, Germany 2010
Gallery Screenings
Queer Salon Berlin, Germany 2010
anomie 16mm 7:30 min. B&W Sound (2004)
History repeats itself . . . into the future . . .
Festival Screenings
Basement Media Festival Boston, Massachusetts 2010
Fargo Film Festival Fargo, North Dakota Best Experimental Film 2010
Threat Level Chicago, Illinois 2008
Alternative Requirements Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, California 2004
San Francisco Visual Artist’s Festival San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, California 2004
Gallery Screenings
Canyon Cinema: From Vault to Screen - Metamorphosis National Gallery of Art Washington, DC July-August 2014
Braquage Paris, France 2014
They Might Well Have Been Remnants of the Boat presented by the Calder Foundation New York, New York 2013
Live @ 8 (Curated by Vivienne Dick) Galway, Ireland 2010
transubstantiation 16mm 3:45 min. B&W Sound (2004)
"real and essential presence" imply also a "substantial presence," or transubstantiation.
Festival Screenings
Open Cinema: Art Center Bereg St. Petersberg, Russia 2007
Athens International Film & Video Festival Athens, Ohio 2007
Notthatbalai (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2007
Officinema Festival (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Cinetecca di Bologna Bologna, Italy 2004
flux 16mm 4:30 min. B&W Sound (2003)
The spaces between memory and perception, dream and waking reveal themselves on the film surface. Glimpses, impressions, momentary clarity shifts to obscurity and afterimage. This is a film about film, a film that is process-oriented and takes its time. Finding a language without speech, communication is possible by other means.
Festival Screenings
Open Cinema: Art Center Bereg St. Petersberg, Russia 2007
Notthatbalai (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2007
Officinema Festival (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Cinetecca di Bologna Bologna, Italy 2004
Athens International Film & Video Festival Best Experimental Film 2004
Alternative Requirements Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, California 2004
don’t explain 16mm 6 min. B&W Silent (2003)
A city symphony of kinetic movement in the concrete jungle, yearning for an open horizon and the tranquility of the water lapping on the shore.
Screenings
Fresh Works New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California 2003
china(town) 16mm 5 min. B&W Silent (2002)
Small quiet moments captured in the hustle and bustle of San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Screenings
Alternative Requirements Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, California 2002
Cinema Currents New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California 2003
Vertigo . . . or an Attempt to Retrace the Steps of Hitchcock 5 min. DV Color Sound (2002)
(Collaboration with Amy Romano)
Revisiting a number of San Francisco locations used in the filming of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
Screenings
Officinema Festival (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Cinetecca di Bologna Bologna, Italy 2004
television (study) Super-8 3 min. Color Silent (2002)
Single frame study of decrepit television offering halo transmuted forms revealing white noise and violence of other kinds.
Screenings
Motion Graphics Galore Artists Television Access San Francisco, California 2002
sunflowers (study) Super-8 3 min. Color Silent (2002)
Stop-motion study of sunflowers in the Tuscan breeze mirrored by laundry on the line.
Screenings
ALL MY LIFE - Bruce Baillie Project Fundraiser Artists Television Access San Francisco California 2016
(e) 16mm 3 min. Color/B&W Sound (2002)
Hand-made found footage experimentation.
the ridges 16mm 8 min. B&W/Color Silent (1999)
A meditation on Ingmar Bergman’s Persona as shot in a former mental hospital.
one way Video 4 min. Color Sound (1998)
Performance and non-performance via editing experiments in the spirit of Eisenstein’s montage theory.
Festival Screenings
Athens International Film & Video Festival Athens, Ohio 1998
(Collaboration with Kym Farmen)
A dairymaid is lured into a dark forest by mischievous and ominous spirits. She discovers a magical churn in a clearing and churns until she becomes “electrified.”
Festival Screenings
Athens International Film & Video Festival Athens, Ohio Best Experimental Film 2009
“Canyon Cinema’s Queer Underground” San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival San Francisco, California 2009
Perv Queerotic Film Festival, Australia Finalist 2009
Conference Screenings
Desiring Just Economies/Just Economies of Desire “Oh Economy, Up Yours!” Berlin, Germany 2010
Queer/Feminist Critiques of the Economy and Capitalism Conference “Oh Economy, Up Yours!” Berlin, Germany 2010
Gallery Screenings
Queer Salon Berlin, Germany 2010
anomie 16mm 7:30 min. B&W Sound (2004)
History repeats itself . . . into the future . . .
Festival Screenings
Basement Media Festival Boston, Massachusetts 2010
Fargo Film Festival Fargo, North Dakota Best Experimental Film 2010
Threat Level Chicago, Illinois 2008
Alternative Requirements Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, California 2004
San Francisco Visual Artist’s Festival San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, California 2004
Gallery Screenings
Canyon Cinema: From Vault to Screen - Metamorphosis National Gallery of Art Washington, DC July-August 2014
Braquage Paris, France 2014
They Might Well Have Been Remnants of the Boat presented by the Calder Foundation New York, New York 2013
Live @ 8 (Curated by Vivienne Dick) Galway, Ireland 2010
transubstantiation 16mm 3:45 min. B&W Sound (2004)
"real and essential presence" imply also a "substantial presence," or transubstantiation.
Festival Screenings
Open Cinema: Art Center Bereg St. Petersberg, Russia 2007
Athens International Film & Video Festival Athens, Ohio 2007
Notthatbalai (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2007
Officinema Festival (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Cinetecca di Bologna Bologna, Italy 2004
flux 16mm 4:30 min. B&W Sound (2003)
The spaces between memory and perception, dream and waking reveal themselves on the film surface. Glimpses, impressions, momentary clarity shifts to obscurity and afterimage. This is a film about film, a film that is process-oriented and takes its time. Finding a language without speech, communication is possible by other means.
Festival Screenings
Open Cinema: Art Center Bereg St. Petersberg, Russia 2007
Notthatbalai (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2007
Officinema Festival (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Cinetecca di Bologna Bologna, Italy 2004
Athens International Film & Video Festival Best Experimental Film 2004
Alternative Requirements Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, California 2004
don’t explain 16mm 6 min. B&W Silent (2003)
A city symphony of kinetic movement in the concrete jungle, yearning for an open horizon and the tranquility of the water lapping on the shore.
Screenings
Fresh Works New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California 2003
china(town) 16mm 5 min. B&W Silent (2002)
Small quiet moments captured in the hustle and bustle of San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Screenings
Alternative Requirements Pacific Film Archive Berkeley, California 2002
Cinema Currents New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California 2003
Vertigo . . . or an Attempt to Retrace the Steps of Hitchcock 5 min. DV Color Sound (2002)
(Collaboration with Amy Romano)
Revisiting a number of San Francisco locations used in the filming of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
Screenings
Officinema Festival (Curated by Janis Crystal Lipzin) Cinetecca di Bologna Bologna, Italy 2004
television (study) Super-8 3 min. Color Silent (2002)
Single frame study of decrepit television offering halo transmuted forms revealing white noise and violence of other kinds.
Screenings
Motion Graphics Galore Artists Television Access San Francisco, California 2002
sunflowers (study) Super-8 3 min. Color Silent (2002)
Stop-motion study of sunflowers in the Tuscan breeze mirrored by laundry on the line.
Screenings
ALL MY LIFE - Bruce Baillie Project Fundraiser Artists Television Access San Francisco California 2016
(e) 16mm 3 min. Color/B&W Sound (2002)
Hand-made found footage experimentation.
the ridges 16mm 8 min. B&W/Color Silent (1999)
A meditation on Ingmar Bergman’s Persona as shot in a former mental hospital.
one way Video 4 min. Color Sound (1998)
Performance and non-performance via editing experiments in the spirit of Eisenstein’s montage theory.
Festival Screenings
Athens International Film & Video Festival Athens, Ohio 1998
ONLINE PROJECTS
agnès films, Experimental and Fringe Film Editor
agnès films is both an online community and a venue for publishing work about feminist and female-centered film and video production by filmmakers and scholars. The site aims to foster feminist filmmaking and to provide a meeting place for filmmakers and scholars interested in film studies, feminism, and/or the production process. As Experimental and Fringe Film Editor, I scout and procure writing for the site, edit drafts of our contributors’ work, create the design layout for each post, and increase the site’s visibility through outreach to film festivals, journals, and academic departments interested in film and video, as well as by helping manage our Facebook group.
agnès films is both an online community and a venue for publishing work about feminist and female-centered film and video production by filmmakers and scholars. The site aims to foster feminist filmmaking and to provide a meeting place for filmmakers and scholars interested in film studies, feminism, and/or the production process. As Experimental and Fringe Film Editor, I scout and procure writing for the site, edit drafts of our contributors’ work, create the design layout for each post, and increase the site’s visibility through outreach to film festivals, journals, and academic departments interested in film and video, as well as by helping manage our Facebook group.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Women of Canyon Cinema A research and curatorial project that looks at the history of the organization in terms of women’s work that is underrepresented, studied and referenced addressing questions of access; lack of writing, scholarship and other inquiry; recognition of this work in academia, the art world and beyond and the problems/benefits of framing filmmaking as gendered especially in experimental and underground film.
No Punk Transgressions. Retrospective screening series of Punk and No Wave films.. Currently seeking project funding and additional presentation partners. San Francisco Film Society has offered support for this project. 2010-Present
Faculty Advisor 6th Annual Festival of the Moving Image. San Francisco City College, Roxie Theater November 30, 2016
Faculty Advisor CINE 40, 16th Annual City Shorts Student Film Festival. San Francisco City College, Diego Rivera Theater May 19, 2016
Prescreener, San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate Awards/New Visions. San Francisco, California . 2008-2010, 2016, 2017
Canyon Cinema Salon Seeing Something Always Hidden New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California. October 27, 2014
From Vault to Screen: Canyon Cinema National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC. July-August 2014. Co-programming an extensive series of eight screenings to highlight new acquisitions, recent restorations, archival and vintage prints from the Canyon collection.
my gaze /// yr gaze * denah a. johnston n/a Gallery. Oakland, California. April 27, 2014
Narrative Short Film Judge Athens International Film & Video Festival. Athens, Ohio. April 2014
Exception to the Rule (collaboration with Janis Crystal Lipzin) Kadist Art Foundation. San Francisco, California. December 18, 2013
Sound and Vision: Works by Pat O'Neill, Peter Tscherkassky and Gunvor Nelson Athens International Film & Video Festival. Athens, Ohio. April 2013
Experimental Film Judge Athens International Film & Video Festival. Athens, Ohio. April 2013
Experimental Film Judge Athens International Film & Video Festival. Athens, Ohio. April 2012
Curator/prescreener, San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. San Francisco, California. 2005-2010
Curator and consultant, for the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. Thundercrack!, It Came From Kuchar, I Was a Teenage Rumpot and Canyon Cinema’s Queer Underground. San Francisco, California. 2009
Co-curator, Cinema Currents. New Nothing Cinema. San Francisco, California. 2004
Co-curator, Challenge Your Optic Sensibilities. New Nothing Cinema. San Francisco, California. 2003
Co-curator, Time-Bomb. New Nothing Cinema. San Francisco, California. 2002
Programmer/prescreener, Athens International Film & Video Festival. Athens, Ohio. 1996-1999
No Punk Transgressions. Retrospective screening series of Punk and No Wave films.. Currently seeking project funding and additional presentation partners. San Francisco Film Society has offered support for this project. 2010-Present
Faculty Advisor 6th Annual Festival of the Moving Image. San Francisco City College, Roxie Theater November 30, 2016
Faculty Advisor CINE 40, 16th Annual City Shorts Student Film Festival. San Francisco City College, Diego Rivera Theater May 19, 2016
Prescreener, San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate Awards/New Visions. San Francisco, California . 2008-2010, 2016, 2017
Canyon Cinema Salon Seeing Something Always Hidden New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California. October 27, 2014
From Vault to Screen: Canyon Cinema National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC. July-August 2014. Co-programming an extensive series of eight screenings to highlight new acquisitions, recent restorations, archival and vintage prints from the Canyon collection.
my gaze /// yr gaze * denah a. johnston n/a Gallery. Oakland, California. April 27, 2014
Narrative Short Film Judge Athens International Film & Video Festival. Athens, Ohio. April 2014
Exception to the Rule (collaboration with Janis Crystal Lipzin) Kadist Art Foundation. San Francisco, California. December 18, 2013
Sound and Vision: Works by Pat O'Neill, Peter Tscherkassky and Gunvor Nelson Athens International Film & Video Festival. Athens, Ohio. April 2013
Experimental Film Judge Athens International Film & Video Festival. Athens, Ohio. April 2013
Experimental Film Judge Athens International Film & Video Festival. Athens, Ohio. April 2012
Curator/prescreener, San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. San Francisco, California. 2005-2010
Curator and consultant, for the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. Thundercrack!, It Came From Kuchar, I Was a Teenage Rumpot and Canyon Cinema’s Queer Underground. San Francisco, California. 2009
Co-curator, Cinema Currents. New Nothing Cinema. San Francisco, California. 2004
Co-curator, Challenge Your Optic Sensibilities. New Nothing Cinema. San Francisco, California. 2003
Co-curator, Time-Bomb. New Nothing Cinema. San Francisco, California. 2002
Programmer/prescreener, Athens International Film & Video Festival. Athens, Ohio. 1996-1999
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
Web: Word Press, Blogger, HTML, CSS, Weebly
Film and Video: Super-8m 16mm, DV, HD, Premiere, Pro Tools, DVD Authoring, optical printing, hand processing
Photography: 35mm, 120, 4x5, hand processing, alternative processing, black & white and color printing, digital
Design: Photoshop, Lightroom
Film and Video: Super-8m 16mm, DV, HD, Premiere, Pro Tools, DVD Authoring, optical printing, hand processing
Photography: 35mm, 120, 4x5, hand processing, alternative processing, black & white and color printing, digital
Design: Photoshop, Lightroom
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Speaker
Panelist, Non-Theatrical Theatrical: Screening to Real Audiences, NAMAC ALLIANCE Conference Oakland, California June 10, 2016
Moderator, Mace of Disruption A Perspective on American Safety Panel Discussion, The Growlery, San Francisco, California June 1, 2016
Master of Ceremonies, 16th Annual City Shorts Student Film Festival, Diego Rivera Theater, San Francisco City College May 19, 2016
Moderator, Bay Area Underground Cinema Panel, Timeless Motion, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California March 9, 2016
Programmer, Presenter and Panelist Brakhage Center Symposium: A Tribute to George Kuchar, University of Colorado, Boulder March 4-6, 2016
"Collaboration and Innovation in the Cinema," Distrital, Seminario El Publico del Futuro, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City January 29, 2016
Keynote Address "Creative Rebellion and Our Unending Task to Cause Constructive Chaos," Repetitions, Permutations & Becoming 17th Annual San Francisco State University Cinema Conference, San Francisco, California October 24, 2015
Introduction to Kate McCabe's Canyon Cinema Salon Betwixt and Between New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California June 29, 2015
Introduction to Claire Bain's Canyon Cinema Salon Next to You New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California May 4, 2015
Conversations and Interviews about Canyon Cinema, Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand and Introduction to Autoetnographicas Ambulante Oaxaca, Mexico
April 24-26, 2015
Introduction to Nathaniel Dorsky's Canyon Cinema Salon on Stan Brakhage Part II New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California March 30, 2015
Introduction to Nathaniel Dorsky's Canyon Cinema Salon on Stan Brakhage Part I New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California December 15, 2014
Introduction to Tyler Turkle's Canyon Cinema Salon Plastic History: Independent and Experimental Filmmaking the in Age of Acetate New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California November 24, 2014
Introduction to Doug Wendt's Canyon Cinema Salon New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California June 30, 2014
Panelist, Fact or Fiction or ? San Francisco DocFest, Roxie Theater, San Francisco, California June 2014
Introduction to Lawrence Jordan's Canyon Cinema Salon New Nothing Cinema., San Francisco, California April 2014
Introduction to “Canyon Cinema Works on 35mm” San Francisco MOMA. December 2012
Introduction to “Gunvor Nelson: Friends and Influences” New Nothing Cinema, San Francisco, California. November 2012
Organized and Moderated Queer Underground Film panel discussion for the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, supported by the Warhol Foundation and the NEA. June 2009
University of California Berkeley Extension Found Object Art / Found Footage lecture, guest artist presentation. Instructor Sarah Barsness. 2009
San Francisco Art Institute Introduction to Film guest artist presentation of flux. Instructor Janis Crystal Lipzin. 2008
San Francisco Art Institute Introduction to Film, Hand Processing Safety Workshop. Instructor Jay Rosenblatt. 2007
San Francisco Art Institute Structuring Sound guest artist presentation of flux and anomie. Instructor Charles Boone. 2004
San Francisco Art Institute: Introduction to Film, Hand Processing Safety Workshops. Instructors Janis Crystal Lipzin and Jay Rosenblatt. 2003-2004
Panelist, Non-Theatrical Theatrical: Screening to Real Audiences, NAMAC ALLIANCE Conference Oakland, California June 10, 2016
Moderator, Mace of Disruption A Perspective on American Safety Panel Discussion, The Growlery, San Francisco, California June 1, 2016
Master of Ceremonies, 16th Annual City Shorts Student Film Festival, Diego Rivera Theater, San Francisco City College May 19, 2016
Moderator, Bay Area Underground Cinema Panel, Timeless Motion, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, California March 9, 2016
Programmer, Presenter and Panelist Brakhage Center Symposium: A Tribute to George Kuchar, University of Colorado, Boulder March 4-6, 2016
"Collaboration and Innovation in the Cinema," Distrital, Seminario El Publico del Futuro, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City January 29, 2016
Keynote Address "Creative Rebellion and Our Unending Task to Cause Constructive Chaos," Repetitions, Permutations & Becoming 17th Annual San Francisco State University Cinema Conference, San Francisco, California October 24, 2015
Introduction to Kate McCabe's Canyon Cinema Salon Betwixt and Between New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California June 29, 2015
Introduction to Claire Bain's Canyon Cinema Salon Next to You New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California May 4, 2015
Conversations and Interviews about Canyon Cinema, Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand and Introduction to Autoetnographicas Ambulante Oaxaca, Mexico
April 24-26, 2015
Introduction to Nathaniel Dorsky's Canyon Cinema Salon on Stan Brakhage Part II New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California March 30, 2015
Introduction to Nathaniel Dorsky's Canyon Cinema Salon on Stan Brakhage Part I New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California December 15, 2014
Introduction to Tyler Turkle's Canyon Cinema Salon Plastic History: Independent and Experimental Filmmaking the in Age of Acetate New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California November 24, 2014
Introduction to Doug Wendt's Canyon Cinema Salon New Nothing Cinema San Francisco, California June 30, 2014
Panelist, Fact or Fiction or ? San Francisco DocFest, Roxie Theater, San Francisco, California June 2014
Introduction to Lawrence Jordan's Canyon Cinema Salon New Nothing Cinema., San Francisco, California April 2014
Introduction to “Canyon Cinema Works on 35mm” San Francisco MOMA. December 2012
Introduction to “Gunvor Nelson: Friends and Influences” New Nothing Cinema, San Francisco, California. November 2012
Organized and Moderated Queer Underground Film panel discussion for the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, supported by the Warhol Foundation and the NEA. June 2009
University of California Berkeley Extension Found Object Art / Found Footage lecture, guest artist presentation. Instructor Sarah Barsness. 2009
San Francisco Art Institute Introduction to Film guest artist presentation of flux. Instructor Janis Crystal Lipzin. 2008
San Francisco Art Institute Introduction to Film, Hand Processing Safety Workshop. Instructor Jay Rosenblatt. 2007
San Francisco Art Institute Structuring Sound guest artist presentation of flux and anomie. Instructor Charles Boone. 2004
San Francisco Art Institute: Introduction to Film, Hand Processing Safety Workshops. Instructors Janis Crystal Lipzin and Jay Rosenblatt. 2003-2004
AWARDS AND HONORS
Simone de Beauvoir Fellow, European Graduate School. 2011-Present
Raised $100,000 from the George Lucas Family Foundation in Operational Support for Canyon Cinema Foundation 2014-2015
NAMAC Creative Leader 2015
Warhol Foundation Funding for underground/avant-garde film retrospective series at the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival and support for the Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund. 2009-2010
MFA Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California. 2002-2004
MFA Grant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California. 2002-2004
MFA Travel Grant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California. 2002
Undergraduate Photography Fellowship, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. 1999
Dean’s Scholarship, Ohio University Athens, Ohio. 1996-1999
Ohio Governor’s Award: Photography, Columbus, Ohio. 1994-1995
Raised $100,000 from the George Lucas Family Foundation in Operational Support for Canyon Cinema Foundation 2014-2015
NAMAC Creative Leader 2015
Warhol Foundation Funding for underground/avant-garde film retrospective series at the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival and support for the Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund. 2009-2010
MFA Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California. 2002-2004
MFA Grant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California. 2002-2004
MFA Travel Grant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California. 2002
Undergraduate Photography Fellowship, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. 1999
Dean’s Scholarship, Ohio University Athens, Ohio. 1996-1999
Ohio Governor’s Award: Photography, Columbus, Ohio. 1994-1995
COLLEGE-LEVEL TEACHING
City College of San Francisco
Cinema Department
CINE 18 American Cinema
CINE 20A Film History: Evolution of Film Expression
CINE 20B Film History: Contemporary Cinema
CINE 21 Introduction to Film Studies
CINE 23A Films of Alfred Hitchcock
CINE 23B Focus on Film Noir
CINE 40 Film Festival
CINE 170 Work Experience
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, California
Visual Studies & Film Departments
Film Genres & Practices (FILMS 360)
Spring 2015
This course provides an introduction to a wide range of cinematic styles, genres, and practices. Each session will provide a historical survey of a particular mode of film practice, tracing the development of indie cinema, experimental film and video, documentary styles, types of art house cinema, and tendencies within mainstream Hollywood narratives. One guiding question throughout the semester will be how contemporary trends can be traced back to their earlier historical roots in global film culture. In addition to our exploration of genres and types of films, we will also discuss both changing and enduring viewing practices, as well as modes of distribution and exhibition. Students will be required to develop and present research or creative projects in which they delve deeper into a topic introduced in our class sessions.
Academy of Art University
San Francisco, California
Liberal Arts & Motion Pictures and Television Departments
Genres in Film (LA 182)
Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Summer 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Summer 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Summer 2015
This course introduces students to a variety of film genres, such as drama, comedy, western, science fiction, mystery/suspense, musical and film noir implementing concepts such as reflectionism, social functions of genre, the four cycles of genre and rules and regulations set by the Production Code and later the MPAA. I aim to broaden their understanding of basic elements of each genre beginning with film history and moving into contemporary examples of hybrid-genres that rely on developed familiarity with tropes and elements to fully enjoy contemporary film. Through a number of writing assignments, students explore the similarities and differences between genres such as Melodrama/Horror, Western/Science Fiction.
History of Film II: Post-War Cinema (1941-1975) (LA 282/MPT 256)
Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Summer 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014,
Fall 2014, Spring 2015
This course explores the major movements in the modern world of cinema from World War II to Vietnam including Neo-realism, the French New Wave, Classical Hollywood, Cinema Vérité and New Hollywood Cinema. We examine the work of John Huston, Vittorio de Sica, Billy Wilder, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, Stanley Kubrick and other directors.
History of Film III: Contemporary Cinema (1975-Present) (LA 382)
Summer 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2012
This course explores the major movements in contemporary cinema and the birth of the video/digital revolution from 1975 to the present including: the Hollywood Blockbuster, Sundance Film Festival, Dogme 95, The Political Documentary, and Third World New Wave. We examine the work of Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Jane Campion, David Lynch, The Coen Brothers, Lars von Trier, Wong Kar Wai.
Exploring Science Fiction Cinema (LA 386)
Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014
This course investigates the history of science fiction cinema beginning with George Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in the early 20th century through the Golden Era of the 1950s, counter-culture and international efforts in the 1960s, revisionist approaches of the 1970s, big budget 1980s, cyberpunk influenced 1990s and ending with today’s genre-bending special-effects-laden epics. In class we perform close review of scenes and films with detailed discussions about narrative structure and visual style, making students aware of how the use of filmic elements, such as cinematography, mise-en-scène, and editing contribute to the impact of the cinematic experience within the genre.
analog before digital: punk/no wave film & music (LA 408)
Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014
This course investigates the film, music and art world cross-over activities that were unique to New York, London, Los Angeles and San Francisco from 1975-1989, as well as influences from the 1950s and 1960s. We screen and discuss the historical background of each film through the filters of the late 1970s-mid 1980s art world, club scene and music with selected readings.
Art and Ideology of the 20th Century (GLA 602)
Summer 2013, Spring 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2015, Summer 2015
After a brief review of the art of the 19th century and the avant-garde, this course focuses on the artistic movements, styles and world of ideas of the 20th century. Various philosophies, social movements and artists will be considered while exploring what constitutes modernism, art and culture.
Motion Picture Theory and Style (MPT 602/GLA 605)
Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015
This graduate course addresses the formation and evolution of motion picture production and style in the areas of camera, lighting, editing, mise-en-scène, sound, story and performance. The history of cinema is examined with an emphasis on aesthetic developments and the forces behind technical, theoretical and formal innovations that influence contemporary works.
Crossing Borders: Art & Culture in Global Society (GS 606)
Summer 2009, Summer 2011, Summer 2012
This graduate course explores the historical relationships between the dominant, Euro-American culture and other cultures. Students consider concepts including post-colonialism, transnationalism and globalism, and examine how these factors have shaped the production, circulation and consumption of art. Through presentation of art, film and music the class surveys trans-national influences via museum exhibits to question modes of presentation of European, Asian and non-Western art and artifacts.
European Graduate School
Media & Communications
Saas-Fee, Switzerland
Experimental Cinema, Teaching Assistant to Barbara Hammer (MCF42)
Summer 2007
Support for seminar on Experimental Cinema, Personal Documentary and the Essay Film. Presented screening and led class discussion about Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied (1989) and the rise of LGBT personal/documentary film and New Queer Cinema.
San Francisco Art Institute
Film Department
San Francisco, California
Estranged Cinema: How to Make Film(s) (on) Your Own
Fall 2004
A 15-week beginning film production class offered through Adult Continuing Education introducing students excited and passionate about film as a form of expression to the mechanics and how-to of small scale, independent/DIY production, providing them with a background and structure through experimental, narrative and documentary examples from film history. Projects include the production of hand-made film, a haiku super-8 film, graphic editing exercises and in-class demonstrations of hand-processing of super-8 b&w film.
Introduction to Film, Teaching Assistant to Jay Rosenblatt (FM101)
Spring 2004
This course is a practical hands-on introduction to filmmaking. Its primary aim is for students to come away with a working knowledge of issues pertaining to filmmaking and moving image language. Emphasis is placed on visual/temporal developments, working with technology and developing an understanding of the basics of film language and grammar. Striving to stretch and expand beyond the ways in which film has traditionally been used in the industry, this class explores various definitions of the medium as artists use it. Assisting in course layout, content and structure, I provided daily technical support and trouble-shooting. I also lectured and provided demonstration and instruction in darkroom safety, hand-processing and hand-made film practices.
Introduction to Film Editing, Teaching Assistant to Jay Rosenblatt (FM204)
Fall 2003
This course introduces students to practical skills and conceptual issues connected with the history, techniques and effects of editing, utilizing image, sound and music. Assisting in course layout, content and structure, I lectured on a number of examples of diverse editing approaches for documentary, experimental and narrative films.
Cinema Department
CINE 18 American Cinema
CINE 20A Film History: Evolution of Film Expression
CINE 20B Film History: Contemporary Cinema
CINE 21 Introduction to Film Studies
CINE 23A Films of Alfred Hitchcock
CINE 23B Focus on Film Noir
CINE 40 Film Festival
CINE 170 Work Experience
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, California
Visual Studies & Film Departments
Film Genres & Practices (FILMS 360)
Spring 2015
This course provides an introduction to a wide range of cinematic styles, genres, and practices. Each session will provide a historical survey of a particular mode of film practice, tracing the development of indie cinema, experimental film and video, documentary styles, types of art house cinema, and tendencies within mainstream Hollywood narratives. One guiding question throughout the semester will be how contemporary trends can be traced back to their earlier historical roots in global film culture. In addition to our exploration of genres and types of films, we will also discuss both changing and enduring viewing practices, as well as modes of distribution and exhibition. Students will be required to develop and present research or creative projects in which they delve deeper into a topic introduced in our class sessions.
Academy of Art University
San Francisco, California
Liberal Arts & Motion Pictures and Television Departments
Genres in Film (LA 182)
Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Summer 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Summer 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Summer 2015
This course introduces students to a variety of film genres, such as drama, comedy, western, science fiction, mystery/suspense, musical and film noir implementing concepts such as reflectionism, social functions of genre, the four cycles of genre and rules and regulations set by the Production Code and later the MPAA. I aim to broaden their understanding of basic elements of each genre beginning with film history and moving into contemporary examples of hybrid-genres that rely on developed familiarity with tropes and elements to fully enjoy contemporary film. Through a number of writing assignments, students explore the similarities and differences between genres such as Melodrama/Horror, Western/Science Fiction.
History of Film II: Post-War Cinema (1941-1975) (LA 282/MPT 256)
Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Summer 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014,
Fall 2014, Spring 2015
This course explores the major movements in the modern world of cinema from World War II to Vietnam including Neo-realism, the French New Wave, Classical Hollywood, Cinema Vérité and New Hollywood Cinema. We examine the work of John Huston, Vittorio de Sica, Billy Wilder, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, Stanley Kubrick and other directors.
History of Film III: Contemporary Cinema (1975-Present) (LA 382)
Summer 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2012
This course explores the major movements in contemporary cinema and the birth of the video/digital revolution from 1975 to the present including: the Hollywood Blockbuster, Sundance Film Festival, Dogme 95, The Political Documentary, and Third World New Wave. We examine the work of Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Jane Campion, David Lynch, The Coen Brothers, Lars von Trier, Wong Kar Wai.
Exploring Science Fiction Cinema (LA 386)
Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014
This course investigates the history of science fiction cinema beginning with George Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in the early 20th century through the Golden Era of the 1950s, counter-culture and international efforts in the 1960s, revisionist approaches of the 1970s, big budget 1980s, cyberpunk influenced 1990s and ending with today’s genre-bending special-effects-laden epics. In class we perform close review of scenes and films with detailed discussions about narrative structure and visual style, making students aware of how the use of filmic elements, such as cinematography, mise-en-scène, and editing contribute to the impact of the cinematic experience within the genre.
analog before digital: punk/no wave film & music (LA 408)
Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014
This course investigates the film, music and art world cross-over activities that were unique to New York, London, Los Angeles and San Francisco from 1975-1989, as well as influences from the 1950s and 1960s. We screen and discuss the historical background of each film through the filters of the late 1970s-mid 1980s art world, club scene and music with selected readings.
Art and Ideology of the 20th Century (GLA 602)
Summer 2013, Spring 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2015, Summer 2015
After a brief review of the art of the 19th century and the avant-garde, this course focuses on the artistic movements, styles and world of ideas of the 20th century. Various philosophies, social movements and artists will be considered while exploring what constitutes modernism, art and culture.
Motion Picture Theory and Style (MPT 602/GLA 605)
Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015
This graduate course addresses the formation and evolution of motion picture production and style in the areas of camera, lighting, editing, mise-en-scène, sound, story and performance. The history of cinema is examined with an emphasis on aesthetic developments and the forces behind technical, theoretical and formal innovations that influence contemporary works.
Crossing Borders: Art & Culture in Global Society (GS 606)
Summer 2009, Summer 2011, Summer 2012
This graduate course explores the historical relationships between the dominant, Euro-American culture and other cultures. Students consider concepts including post-colonialism, transnationalism and globalism, and examine how these factors have shaped the production, circulation and consumption of art. Through presentation of art, film and music the class surveys trans-national influences via museum exhibits to question modes of presentation of European, Asian and non-Western art and artifacts.
European Graduate School
Media & Communications
Saas-Fee, Switzerland
Experimental Cinema, Teaching Assistant to Barbara Hammer (MCF42)
Summer 2007
Support for seminar on Experimental Cinema, Personal Documentary and the Essay Film. Presented screening and led class discussion about Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied (1989) and the rise of LGBT personal/documentary film and New Queer Cinema.
San Francisco Art Institute
Film Department
San Francisco, California
Estranged Cinema: How to Make Film(s) (on) Your Own
Fall 2004
A 15-week beginning film production class offered through Adult Continuing Education introducing students excited and passionate about film as a form of expression to the mechanics and how-to of small scale, independent/DIY production, providing them with a background and structure through experimental, narrative and documentary examples from film history. Projects include the production of hand-made film, a haiku super-8 film, graphic editing exercises and in-class demonstrations of hand-processing of super-8 b&w film.
Introduction to Film, Teaching Assistant to Jay Rosenblatt (FM101)
Spring 2004
This course is a practical hands-on introduction to filmmaking. Its primary aim is for students to come away with a working knowledge of issues pertaining to filmmaking and moving image language. Emphasis is placed on visual/temporal developments, working with technology and developing an understanding of the basics of film language and grammar. Striving to stretch and expand beyond the ways in which film has traditionally been used in the industry, this class explores various definitions of the medium as artists use it. Assisting in course layout, content and structure, I provided daily technical support and trouble-shooting. I also lectured and provided demonstration and instruction in darkroom safety, hand-processing and hand-made film practices.
Introduction to Film Editing, Teaching Assistant to Jay Rosenblatt (FM204)
Fall 2003
This course introduces students to practical skills and conceptual issues connected with the history, techniques and effects of editing, utilizing image, sound and music. Assisting in course layout, content and structure, I lectured on a number of examples of diverse editing approaches for documentary, experimental and narrative films.
STUDY ABROAD
European Graduate School
Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Summer Residencies 2006, 2007
Intensive summer seminars in film, art, theory and philosophy with a wide array of today’s thinkers and creators supplemented by online components throughout the year.
San Francisco Art Institute
Rome, Florence, Venice and Tuscany, Italy. Summer 2002
Intensive month-long study including artist-talks, museum visits and historical tours – focus on Italian art & contemporary culture.
Ohio University
Prague, Czech Republic. Spring 1997
Intensive study of Czech photography, Eastern European art history, culture and film.
Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Summer Residencies 2006, 2007
Intensive summer seminars in film, art, theory and philosophy with a wide array of today’s thinkers and creators supplemented by online components throughout the year.
San Francisco Art Institute
Rome, Florence, Venice and Tuscany, Italy. Summer 2002
Intensive month-long study including artist-talks, museum visits and historical tours – focus on Italian art & contemporary culture.
Ohio University
Prague, Czech Republic. Spring 1997
Intensive study of Czech photography, Eastern European art history, culture and film.
SERVICE, COMMITTEE AND PROFESSIONAL WORK
Cinema Department Chair, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, California August 2015-Present
Cinema Search Committee Chair Spring 2017
Drone Advisory Panel Member 2017-present
DCC Member 2016-present
Cinema Search Committee Member Spring 2016
Festival of the Moving Image Faculty Advisor Fall 2016
City Shorts Student Film Festival Faculty Advisor Spring 2016
Cinema Advisory Board 2015-present
Executive Director, Canyon Cinema Foundation San Francisco, California August 2012-August 2015
Leading the 50-year old distributor of experimental and avant-garde film during the crucial transition to nonprofit I oversaw all aspects of organizational functions from accounting, creative partnerships, artist relations and negotiating print rentals to working with domestic and international galleries, universities, museums, archives and film festivals to widen the availability and visibility of the collection of over 3,000 artist-made films.
Instructor, Academy of Art University San Francisco, California September 2008-August 2015
Teaching an array of courses in the Liberal Arts and Motion Pictures and Television Departments that cover film and art history, theory and practice, actively involved in curriculum development and also have experience developing, building and teaching online courses.
Instructor, California College of the Arts Film and Visual Studies
San Francisco, California January-May 2015
Film Genres and Practices
Anime Club Advisor Academy of Art University San Francisco, California
September 2013-May 2015
Graduate Review Committees, Motion Picture and Television Department Academy of Art University
San Francisco, California September 2011-May 2015
Directing, Cinematography, Producing, Editing, Screenwriting
Thesis Examiner, Deakin University, Australia
Jack Sargeant, Investigating the Use & Function of Shock in Underground Film, April-May 2013
Board Member, Canyon Cinema San Francisco, California 2011-2013
Production Assistant, It Came From Kuchar San Francisco, California 2008
Intern, San Francisco Film Society San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate Awards 2008
Programming Coordinator, Current TV San Francisco, California October-December 2008
I sourced compelling, short-form content for integrated web and TV broadcast, shepherded content through pipeline from development to acquisition to post production to air, working collaboratively with legal, marketing and other departments, processing paperwork and deliverables (music cue sheets, contracts, etc.).
Distribution Associate, Frameline San Francisco, California November 2005-November 2008
My duties included database management, maintaining inventory of masters, website management, liaison with film festivals and programmers, institutions and organizations for rentals, programming, purchase, exhibition of titles and expansion of rentals into the European festival circuit. I also streamlined and managed a collection-wide digitization process of 250+ titles which included aiding in design, branding and DVD authoring of various home video (Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied, Jenni Olson’s The Joy of Life, William E. Jones' Is It Really So Strange?) and educational releases.
Intern, Canyon Cinema San Francisco, California 2003
Intern, Film Arts Foundation San Francisco, California 2003
Americorps VISTA, ReUse Industries Albany, Ohio June 1999-June 2000
Volunteer recruitment and project management, management of Community Thrift Store (Extension of ReUse Industries in Athens, Ohio), grant writing, community outreach, educational presentations at local grade schools, event planning, liaison with local arts community who uses recycled materials in their work, administrative.
Gallery Assistant, Trisolini Gallery Ohio University Athens, Ohio August 1998-May 1999
Press relations, assistant to gallery Director Christine Heindl, event planning, hanging/installing shows and administrative gallery work for Ohio University Artist’s Gallery.
Cinema Search Committee Chair Spring 2017
Drone Advisory Panel Member 2017-present
DCC Member 2016-present
Cinema Search Committee Member Spring 2016
Festival of the Moving Image Faculty Advisor Fall 2016
City Shorts Student Film Festival Faculty Advisor Spring 2016
Cinema Advisory Board 2015-present
Executive Director, Canyon Cinema Foundation San Francisco, California August 2012-August 2015
Leading the 50-year old distributor of experimental and avant-garde film during the crucial transition to nonprofit I oversaw all aspects of organizational functions from accounting, creative partnerships, artist relations and negotiating print rentals to working with domestic and international galleries, universities, museums, archives and film festivals to widen the availability and visibility of the collection of over 3,000 artist-made films.
Instructor, Academy of Art University San Francisco, California September 2008-August 2015
Teaching an array of courses in the Liberal Arts and Motion Pictures and Television Departments that cover film and art history, theory and practice, actively involved in curriculum development and also have experience developing, building and teaching online courses.
Instructor, California College of the Arts Film and Visual Studies
San Francisco, California January-May 2015
Film Genres and Practices
Anime Club Advisor Academy of Art University San Francisco, California
September 2013-May 2015
Graduate Review Committees, Motion Picture and Television Department Academy of Art University
San Francisco, California September 2011-May 2015
Directing, Cinematography, Producing, Editing, Screenwriting
Thesis Examiner, Deakin University, Australia
Jack Sargeant, Investigating the Use & Function of Shock in Underground Film, April-May 2013
Board Member, Canyon Cinema San Francisco, California 2011-2013
Production Assistant, It Came From Kuchar San Francisco, California 2008
Intern, San Francisco Film Society San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate Awards 2008
Programming Coordinator, Current TV San Francisco, California October-December 2008
I sourced compelling, short-form content for integrated web and TV broadcast, shepherded content through pipeline from development to acquisition to post production to air, working collaboratively with legal, marketing and other departments, processing paperwork and deliverables (music cue sheets, contracts, etc.).
Distribution Associate, Frameline San Francisco, California November 2005-November 2008
My duties included database management, maintaining inventory of masters, website management, liaison with film festivals and programmers, institutions and organizations for rentals, programming, purchase, exhibition of titles and expansion of rentals into the European festival circuit. I also streamlined and managed a collection-wide digitization process of 250+ titles which included aiding in design, branding and DVD authoring of various home video (Marlon Riggs’ Tongues Untied, Jenni Olson’s The Joy of Life, William E. Jones' Is It Really So Strange?) and educational releases.
Intern, Canyon Cinema San Francisco, California 2003
Intern, Film Arts Foundation San Francisco, California 2003
Americorps VISTA, ReUse Industries Albany, Ohio June 1999-June 2000
Volunteer recruitment and project management, management of Community Thrift Store (Extension of ReUse Industries in Athens, Ohio), grant writing, community outreach, educational presentations at local grade schools, event planning, liaison with local arts community who uses recycled materials in their work, administrative.
Gallery Assistant, Trisolini Gallery Ohio University Athens, Ohio August 1998-May 1999
Press relations, assistant to gallery Director Christine Heindl, event planning, hanging/installing shows and administrative gallery work for Ohio University Artist’s Gallery.
RELEVANT COURSE WORK
Media/Film
Media, Politics and Psychoanalysis
MC.PS05, Slavoj Žižek, European Graduate School. Summer 2007
Experimental Cinema
MC.F42, Barbara Hammer, European Graduate School. Summer 2007
Cinema For the New Millennium
MC.F02, Peter Greenaway, European Graduate School. Summer 2006
Mediology: Audiovisual History and Techno Culture
MC.MD04, Seigfreid Zielinski, European Graduate School. Summer 2006
Sound for Film
FM200-01, Guy Sherwin, San Francisco Art Institute. Spring 2002
Motion Graphics
FM112-01, Kerry Laitala, San Francisco Art Institute. Fall 2002
Philosophy/Theory
Philosophy, Ethics, Art
MC.PH65, Alain Badiou, European Graduate School. Summer 2007
Finitude in Philosophy, Literature and Art
MC.PH63, Avital Ronell, European Graduate School. Summer 2007
Ethics and Politics After the Subject
MC.PH14, Judith Butler, European Graduate School. Summer 2006
Ficto-Criticism
CS500-07, Chris Kraus, San Francisco Art Institute. Spring 2004
Minimalism, Conceptualism and the Experience of Place
ARTH 500-01, Jeannene Przyblyski, San Francisco Art Institute. Fall 2002
Media, Politics and Psychoanalysis
MC.PS05, Slavoj Žižek, European Graduate School. Summer 2007
Experimental Cinema
MC.F42, Barbara Hammer, European Graduate School. Summer 2007
Cinema For the New Millennium
MC.F02, Peter Greenaway, European Graduate School. Summer 2006
Mediology: Audiovisual History and Techno Culture
MC.MD04, Seigfreid Zielinski, European Graduate School. Summer 2006
Sound for Film
FM200-01, Guy Sherwin, San Francisco Art Institute. Spring 2002
Motion Graphics
FM112-01, Kerry Laitala, San Francisco Art Institute. Fall 2002
Philosophy/Theory
Philosophy, Ethics, Art
MC.PH65, Alain Badiou, European Graduate School. Summer 2007
Finitude in Philosophy, Literature and Art
MC.PH63, Avital Ronell, European Graduate School. Summer 2007
Ethics and Politics After the Subject
MC.PH14, Judith Butler, European Graduate School. Summer 2006
Ficto-Criticism
CS500-07, Chris Kraus, San Francisco Art Institute. Spring 2004
Minimalism, Conceptualism and the Experience of Place
ARTH 500-01, Jeannene Przyblyski, San Francisco Art Institute. Fall 2002
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS
Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2011-Present
Canyon Cinema 2008-Present
Modern Language Association 2013-2014
College Art Association 2007-2012
Film Arts Foundation 2004-2006
Canyon Cinema 2008-Present
Modern Language Association 2013-2014
College Art Association 2007-2012
Film Arts Foundation 2004-2006
REFERENCES
Available upon request.