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Ben Balcom (b. 1986, Massachusetts) is a filmmaker currently living and working in Milwaukee, WI. He is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee and is the co-founder and co-programmer of Microlights Cinema.
Total trailers found: 15
02 June 2012
Prior to leaving Hampshire College in 1980, Tom was working on a 16mm film inspired by Jose Arguelles' book, The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression.
01 January 2014
Filmed during a visit to the Duntulm Castle on the Isle of Skye, composed in-camera, frame by frame. The soundtrack is a rendition of the earliest known Celtic song.
09 December 2015
Wandering through the body puzzling out a system of symbols. The trouble is, affect resists signification outright.
01 January 2013
Wandering through the city, wondering about the potentialities of space, wishing and wanting a full experience of the virtual.
25 September 2019
One sunny afternoon in the middle west, suspended in a time between, two commuters daydream of a life lived otherwise.
25 January 2023
Growing Up Absurd is assembled from interviews conducted remotely with key members of the Tolstoy College community – Alex Van Oss, Peter Murphy, Chip Planck, and Paul Richmond – that speak to the ethos and history of the college, from its founding in 1969 to its dissolution in 1985.
01 January 2014
A mirrored discourse. The object we see is that which craves articulation, but is never said quite right.
04 April 2022
Filmed on the former grounds of Black Mountain College, LOOKING BACKWARD is a brief elegy to the legacy of a utopian college and other impossible projects.
02 March 2017
A feeling of forgetting rendered with first-person camera work, lens play, and image stabilization. I am old where I was born.
01 January 2014
Here are the playful recordings of a naturalist—the observations of a difficult object. As the studio accelerates and numerous cinematic strategies are employed, the information gathered becomes noise; all these measurements become doodles.
05 December 2020
Two slow pans across a public park in Milwaukee. Words from Bernadette Mayer imagining the possibility of a perfect summer day.
01 January 2016
An affective portrait of place. An exploration of the city as abstraction.
04 January 2018
For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodiment.
16 March 2025
Letters from the Ceresco community trace the fragility of harmony, the dream of life in association. Members of the phalanx drift apart, lingering in private corners, suspended in speculative time.
01 January 2023
Filmed in Jackson Park in Milwaukee during summertime, 2020. Featuring the Statue of Commerce by Gustav Haug, 1881.
