Ryan Betschart Trailers
Cup of Stars Trailer
Ryan is co-director and head curator of San Diego Underground Film Festival (MovieMaker Magazine Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee), and has programmed for Slamdance Film Festival, taught at CalArts, lectured at SDSU, Stephens College, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and UC San Diego.
Ryan has an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and a BA in Visual Art from UC San Diego.
As a filmmaker Ryan's films have screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Slamdance, Chicago Underground, Florida Film Festival, New Orleans Film festival, Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, Artifact Small Format, Antimatter Media Art, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival, Athens International, Indie Memphis, Montreal Underground, Winnipeg Underground, Portland Underground, Sydney Underground, Arizona Underground, Moviate Underground, among others..
Most Popular Ryan Betschart Trailers
Total trailers found: 27
01 April 2022
A tribute to Diamond Dave, done as an experimental doc about a rare natural phenomenon
18 February 2018
A visual prose poem on a missed encounter during a brief period of altered states of consciousness.
08 March 2019
In 1990 parapsychologist D. Scott Rogo, an expert in the study of astral projection and an accomplished oboe player, was murdered in his Northridge home.
22 October 2021
An exploration into Astral Projection via my diagnosis of Exploding Head Syndrome. May Sinclair's 1912 novella about a psychic healer's distress over personal depletion when helping clients informs my research of the late parapsychologist D.
24 March 2019
An ode to the Beast; who was felt strongly during the 1970s, when Americans had idle time for metaphysical inquiry, as benefit from the racism of their forefathers, in turn setting in motion an attempt towards a mass liberation of consciousness, which, succumbing to arrogance, unsuccessfully bid to help remove the psychological chains imposed upon others, chains which were the genesis of the aforementioned teenage thought liberation.
09 April 2017
An ode to the 1978 version of Kenneth Anger's film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (dubbed The Sacred Mushroom Edition) and it's peculiar use of Electric Light Orchestra's album El Dorado over images of a ritual orgy between gods, The Sacred Mushroom Edition (2016) finds two fallen angels arguing over ELO and their lead singer Jeff Lynne's affiliated supergroup The Traveling Wilburys - and his connection to the dark side.
16 October 2021
A meditation on the false promise of present day anti racist initiatives. How can two "Night skaters" be seen if no one puts them on camera?
15 October 2015
A vivid tableau of tenderness, Cup of Stars finds two brothers under a cool night sky, fishing for stars and supernovas.
20 October 2016
A music video for the glitch-hop horrorcore group blackhandpath. A digital collision; a burst of data aggression.
21 January 2017
A VHS rendition of what happens when we die - an investigation into death induced dream ephemera or; a body (mind) dissolves into video signal memories.
26 October 2018
Interpretation of a dream I had building a house with stock animation and Migos stuck in my head. Central to my dream was the worry: Is there a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials?? There must be.
11 November 2020
It's been a long day, and you're tired. You come home, nearly doze off in front of the television set, then wander down the hall and plop on your bed expecting to fall asleep in a instant.
01 September 2021
A rumination on the passive politics of whiteness. My character's own flippant attitude towards the mention of racial injustice is both a nod towards the ignorance of white youth and the begging of the question - if I had known, would I have cared beyond a shallow verbal support of the oppressed? A hard day at the pool and the call to dinner being my siren song - an invitation to wash my hands literally and figuratively - guilty thoughts running down the drain, making room for a never ending beach party summer.
05 June 2015
Pudding describes through auditory and visual wonder two children exploring their body curiosity through the telling of false memories regarding 1970's pop icons.
24 March 2018
A fever dream of anti-boomer angst told through disjointed and aggressive sound, picture and edit; Zablah demon baby boomer seeks to convince a millennial that eating at Applebee's is a worthwhile experience.
01 January 2018
A man with an orange face is in a position of power which we believe has something to do with parallel time lines.
07 May 2026
On an interstellar journey, a group of scientists studies the last living vestiges of Earth. The artificial intelligence, Museo, becomes a portal to the crew’s diaries and a fragmented archive of humanity.
20 May 2023
False Expectations is a 3-channel 16mm expanded cinema with a scored live noise performance by Shrine Maiden.
02 March 2023
In an attempt to use mirror divination, a spirit appears as a clever creature during the year of the rabbit.
27 March 2024
kino lau: many bodies is a performance of live music and projections that aims to bridge the ancient and the contemporary, the tangible and the ethereal, creating a multisensory journey that resonates with diverse and modern audiences.
19 September 2025
Music video for Shrine Maiden. To the west I rise To the east I sleep I pull the tides - And agaie
11 October 2025
At a seance, an American war vet upset over his daughters suicide is tricked by con artists who end up playing him a tape of his own war crimes, triggering him to take his life.
01 October 2025
I have seen I have heard I have felt The splendor Of the rain The shimmer Of the mist I’ve n
31 October 2025
A remix of James Benning's Ten Skies
01 January 2020
婦人 (Fujin) /foo-jeen/ noun/plural noun, can be translated as a more formal or polite way to refer to a woman, such as “lady” or “madam” and in some contexts can mean “sisterhood” or “womenfolk.
31 October 2025
My God, Divine Creator!
Don't let me find a watery grave!
09 December 2023
body / negative - everett (feat. Midwife) is the second single from their upcoming album "everett" out Dec 8th, 2023.
