Ryan Betschart
1985 (39 лет)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..
The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)
Ryan Betschart
Tyler Betschart
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.
The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)
The Second Body
Rachel Nakawatase, Ryan Betschart
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. But - suddenly and mysteriously - you find yourself paralyzed. Gushing sounds fill your ears. Bright flashes of light flicker under your closed eyelids. Then you feel as if you are beginning to float... The second film in our tribute to the late parapsychologist D. Scott Rogo, murdered in 1990 under mysterious circumstances.
The Second Body
A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel
Rachel Nakawatase, Ryan Betschart
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. The crime remains unsolved.
A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel
A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973
Ryan Betschart
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. A feedback loop of failed promises inherited by lies.
A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973
Cup of Stars
Tyler Betschart, Ryan Betschart
Ryan Betschart, Tyler Betschart
A vivid tableau of tenderness, Cup of Stars finds two brothers under a cool night sky, fishing for stars and supernovas. Using dream logic under their own bizarre terms, The Betschart Bros. subtly express through a smearing of light and the telling of folk tales, ideas of growing up as siblings in Southern California.
Cup of Stars
There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials
Ryan Betschart
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.
There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials
The Flaw in the Crystal
Ryan Betschart
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. Scott Rogo's life's work in mapping astral projection techniques; these techniques serve as guideposts for my own personal journey in understanding my nightly EHS haltions.
The Flaw in the Crystal
