Directed credits
20
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Strong directing catalog.
Director
Ryan Betschart
Directing
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Directed movies: 20Directed series: 0All crew credits: 26
TMDB ID: 2784439
Known for: Directing
Born: July 16, 1985
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 2015 - 2025
Years active: 11
Frequent jobs
Director (20)Producer (5)Music (1)
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.
Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Ryan Betschart.
A Theory of /Cloud/
Director
2025 Movie
Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10
Director
2025 Movie
Ua 'ike au
Director
2025 Movie
kino lau: many bodies
Director
2024 Movie
body / negative - everett (feat. Midwife)
Director
2023 Movie
An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions
Director
2022 Movie
The Flaw in the Crystal
Director
2021 Movie
Sun Sonification
Director
2021 Movie
The Second Body
Director
2020 Movie
A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973
Director
2019 Movie
A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel
Director
2019 Movie
There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials
Director
2018 Movie
Zablah
Director
2018 Movie
Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming
Director
2018 Movie
The Mandela Effect
Director
2018 Movie
The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)
Director
2017 Movie
Girl Becomes Snow
Director
2017 Movie
Paper Chase
Director
2016 Movie
Cup of Stars
Director
2015 Movie
Pudding
Director
2015 Movie
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False Expectations
Music
2023 Movie
An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions
Director
2022 Movie
The Mandela Effect
Director
2018 Movie
And I Arise (Reprise)
Producer
2025 Movie
The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)
Director
2017 Movie
A Storm at Sea
Producer
2025 Movie
Zablah
Director
2018 Movie
kino lau: many bodies
Director
2024 Movie
Girl Becomes Snow
Director
2017 Movie
Ua 'ike au
Director
2025 Movie
Paper Chase
Director
2016 Movie
Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 10
Director
2025 Movie
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Additional movie credits for Ryan Betschart.
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Acting Appearances in Movies
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