First Person Cinema

First Person Cinema is the longest running university program in the world screening avant-garde film and video work. It was started in 1955 by Carla Selby and Gladney Oakley under the name "The Experimental Cinema Group", and was later carried forward by Bruce Conner and Stan Brakhage. Now called First Person Cinema, the program invites film/video artists to Boulder to present their work in person with the intention of bringing an awareness of the personal cinema. First Person Cinema has become a highly respected international showcase and was programmed by Don Yannacito from 1965 to 2021. It is now programmed collaboratively by the Moving Image Arts faculty.

All screenings are in the Visual Arts Complex 1B20 at 7 PM unless otherwise noted. Admission is free.

Fall 2023 Schedule

Sept 11th - Colectivo los Ingravidos

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Tehuacán) is a Mexican film collective founded in 2012 to dismantle the commercial and corporate audiovisual grammar and its embedded ideology. The collective is inspired by the historical avant-gardes, and their commitment to using both form and content against alienating realities. Their methods combine digital and analog mediums, interventions on archival materials, mythology, agitprop, social protests, and documentary poetry.

The collective creates vivid and sparking films and videos of protests and labor, earth and sky in explosions of sounds and images that work toward decolonizing the ways of seeing the world. Often in experimental film, heavy-handed soundtracks can often overwhelm the force of the visual; but the work of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos integrates bold sonic choices with image in a pure and purposeful unification that can be, at times, sublime.

The work could feature an assortment of their visual styles, themes, and formats. The works vary from digitally animated arrangements of medical imagery, to pulsing ritualistic superimpositions, to delightful camera-dances with the sun and moon. It also features longer work on more focused themes, including works on political action and outrage, and one of their longer films featuring a jazzy soundtrack over lush layers of natural and poetic imagery of trees, flowers, totems, and dance. Colectivo Los Ingrávidos make some of the most striking, relevant, and rigorous work in the experimental film world today.

Oct 9th - Terence Nance

Terence Nance is an Artist, Musician, and Filmmaker born in Dallas, Texas in what was then referred to as the State-Thomas community. Nance wrote, directed, scored, and starred in his first feature film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2013, was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2014, and debuted his Peabody award-winning television series Random Acts of Flyness on HBO in the summer of 2018.

In the fall of 2018, it was announced that Nance was tapped to write, produce and direct Space Jam: A New Legacy, starring Lebron James, and in 2020 Terence released his first EP, THINGS I NEVER HAD under the name Terence Etc. In 2020 he also partnered with filmmakers Jenn Nkiru, Bradford Young, Nanette Nelms and Mishka Brown to form The Ummah Chroma Creative Partners – a directors collective and production company.

This team released KILLING IN THY NAME in collaboration with Rage Against The Machine in January of 2021. Nance is currently at work on healing, curiosity, and interdimensionality following the 2022 release of both Random Acts of Flyness Program II as well as his debut album, VORTEX.

Nov 6th - Janie Geiser

Janie Geiser is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes performance, film, installation, and visual art. Geiser’s work is known for its recontextualization of abandoned images and objects, its embrace of artifice, and its investigation of memory, power, and loss. Geiser is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Doris Duke Artist Award recipient, and a Creative Capital awardee.

One of the pioneers of the renaissance of American avant-garde puppet theater, Geiser creates innovative, hypnotic performances and installations that integrate performing objects, puppets, and projection.

“Geiser gives voice to the reaches of the unconscious, pointing to the abandoned splendor that exists prior to the rules of society and language.” (—Holly Willis, Res, 2004).

Previous Visiting Artists

Ahwesh, Peggy ’90, ’13
Alsharif, Basma ’17
Andersen, Thom ’11
Anger, Kenneth ’81
Angerame, Dominic ’97
Anker, Steve ’06
Antin, Eleanor ’06
Archer, Ina ’22
Asili, Ephraim ’17
Aurand, Ute ’12
Avikunthak, Ashish ’11
Baillie, Bruce ’85, ’12
Baldwin, Craig ’10
Barber, Stephanie ’00, ’16
Barlow, Melinda ’97, ’98, ’99
Baron, Rebecca ’15
Battle, Christina ’09
Beavers, Robert ’12, ’17
Beckman, Ericka ’85, ’12
Beloff, Zoe ’08
Benning, James ’06, ’09, ’22,
Berliner, Alan ’86, ’87, ’92, ’99
Blanchard, Jenny ’89
Blank, Les ’88
Biermann, Gregg ’16
Boord, Dan ’04
Boultenhouse, Charles ’82
Brakhage, Marilyn ’97, ’98
Brakhage, Stan ’76 - ’00
Breer, Emily ’93
Breer, Robert ’78, ’86, ’05
Bridgers, Lee ’91, ’93
Brodsky & Treadway ’82
Bromberg, Betsy ’98, ’07
Broughton, James ’77, ’81
Bruck, Patti ’90
Burr, Peter ’20, ’23
Cameron, Donna ’97
Camper, Fred ’01
Caplan, Elliot ’08
Chase, Doris ’86, ’87, ’92
Child, Abigail ’90, ’98, ’11
Christman, Sarah ’20
Cokes, Tony ’07
Columbus, John ’89, ’00, ’01 ’11
Conner, Bruce ’77, ’85
Conrad, Tony ’83
Creely, Robert ’78
Criss Cross ’78
Crosthwaite, Hugo ’22
Cuthand, TJ ’22
Davis, Sandra ’86
Delanda, Manuel ’83
Dinell, David ’12
Dobermann, Gary ’ 78
Dorsky, Nathaniel ’89, ’99, ’03, ’06, ’07, ’15
Downey, Juan ’88
Duke and Battersby ’19
Dunferd, Mike ’77
Eisenberg, Dan ’98
Elder, Bruce ’88, ’93, ’99, ’01
Emshwiller, Ed ’84
Espelie, Erin ’16
Export, Valie ’88
Farrel, Christian ’95
Felker, Lori ’16
Fenz, Robert ’04
Fischinger, Elfriede ’80
Fitzgerald, Kit ’85
Fleming, Shellie ’95
Fonoroff, Nina ’94, ’04
Frampton, Hollis ’81
Freidrich, Su ’97
Fuerman, Carol ’04
Fulton, Robert ’76

Gardner, Robert ’91
Gatten, David ’03, ’17
Gault, Tony ’03
Gaylor, Bob ’79
Gehr, Ernie ’77, ’78, ’79, ’05, ’09
Geiser, Janie ’99, ’06
George, Amir ’18
Gianvito, John ’10
Gibson + Recoder ’19
Gibson, Sandra ’07
Gidal, Peter ’76
Gilooly, Jane ’15
Gluckstern, Jay ’89
Godmilow, Jill ’78, ’00
Gorin, J.P. ’06
Goss, Jackie ’08
Green, Vanalyne ’91
Greenfield, Amy ’79
Grenier, Vincent ’79, ’89, ’94, ’01, ’14, ’19
Gusella, Ernest ’85
Guttnplan, Howard ’77
Haller, Eve ’03
Halter, Ed ’09
Hammer, Barbara ’89, ’99, ’18
Heit, Laura ’07
Heller, Eve ’00
Herbert, Jim ’99
Hills, Henry ’82, ’95
Hindle, Will ’77, ’84
Hock, Louis ’04
Holdt, Jacob ’85
Hopinka, Sky ’18
Hoskins, Courtney ’03
Hutton, Peter ’88, ’96, ’07
Im, Hyun ’95
Iris, Denise ’13
Jacobs, Ken ’78,- ’04
Jennings, Jim ’98
Jordan, Larry ’82, ’84, ’94, ’14
Jost, John ’86, ’07
Kaul, Shambhavi ’15
Keller, Marjorie ’83
Kitchen, Diane ’02
Klahr, Lewis ’92, ’01, ’05, ’13
Klosky, Linda ’91
Knecht, John ’10
Kraning, Laura ’17
Kren, Kurt ’78, ’82, ’94
Kubelka, Peter ’77
Kuchar, George ’82, ’83, ’88, ’06
Laitala, Kerry ’09
Landow, George ’76, ’79
LaPore, Mark ’97, ’05
Larcher, David ’77
Lawder, Standish ’80, ’90
Le Grice, Vi Malcolm ’76
Leacock, Richard ’80, ’84, ’85
Leaf, Caroline ’93
Lee, Francis ’77
Legget, Mike ’76
Lertxundi, Ladia ’14
Leventhal, Dani ’11
Levine, Saul ’92, ’08, ’16
Liotta, Jeanne ’07
Lipman, Ross ’18
Lowder, Rose ’87, ’12
Lowe, Pelle ’96
Lucier, Mary ’86
Lusztig, Irene ’19
Luther, John ’77, ’79

Mack, Jodie ’14
Madsen Minex, Angelo ’22
Mann, Kathleen ’02
Marslett, Geoff ’15
Matreyek, Miwa ’08
Maxy, Fox ’21
Maysel, Albert ’77
Mclean, Jesse ’15
Morrison, Bill ’00
Moulton, Shana ’11
Mouris, Frank ’78
Muller, Matthias ’94, ’00
Murray, Julie ’01, ’06
Myers, Richard ’78
Myers, Skinner ’21
Nelson, Gunvor ’79, -’92
Nelson, Robert ’79
Nishikawa, Tomonari ’10
Noren, Andrew ’81
O’Neill, Pat ’82, ’10
Ondine ’82
Otis, James ’84, ’99
Owusu, Akosua Adoma ’17
Oxygen, Anna ’08
Palazzolo, Tom ’77, ’87
Peterson, Sidney ’76, ’80
Pierce, Leighton ’97, ’02
Piller, Madi ’18
Plays, Dana ’05
Plumb, Shannon ’12
Price, Luther ’00
Pryce, Charlotte ’23
Rappmund, Peter Bo ’11
Ravett, Abraham ’04
Recoder, Luis ’00, ’07
Reed, Mary Beth ’01
Reeder, Jennifer ’05
Reeves, Dan ’97
Reeves, Jennifer ’96, ’03, ’16
Renwick, Vanessa ’09
Rey, Nicholas ’13
Reynolds, Reynold ’02
Rimmer, David ’99
Rivera, Alex ’21
Robenson, Michael ’08
Rose, Peter ’90, ’98, ’08
Rowe, Phil ’02
Rubin, Jon ’77, ’78
Rumsby, Martin ’85
Russell, Ben ’10

Sachs, Lynne ’14
Saks, Lynn ’96
Samarasinghe, Rajee ’22
Sanders, Talena ’14
Saxs, Erin ’94
Schaller, Robert ’98, ’03
Scheuren, Zach ’01
Schilling, Alphonse ’80
Schneemann, Carolee ’78, ’85
Sears, Kelly, ’14
Seid, Steve ’06, ’11
Sharits, Paul ’79, ’81
Sherman, David ’03
Silva, Fern ’15
Sitney, P. Adams ’79, ’10, ’17
Smith, Jack ’80
Snider, Dean ’86
Snow, Michael ’90
Solomon, Phil ’91 - ’04, ’11
Sonbert, Warren ’84
Stamets, Bill ’86
Stark, Scott ’93, ’13
Steers, Stacey ’90, ’07, ’12
Steiner, Konrad ’00
Stephens, Courtney ’23
Sternberg, Barbara ’08
Stiglicz, Zach ’95
Strand, Chick ’80
Stratman, Deborah ’09
Street, Mark ’96, ’14
Sullivan, Chris ’01
Szlam, Malena ’19
Thornton, Leslie ’88
Torosian, Garine ’01, ’02
Trainer, James ’06
Valdovino, Luis ’96, ’99, ’04
Vanderbeek, Stan ’83
Vasulka, Steina ’84, ’95, ’12
Vasulka, Woody ’89, ’12
Velez, Edin ’91
Vesulka, Woody & Steina ’79
Vigil, Carmen ’76, ’80
Viola, Bill ’83
Voorhuis, Nelly ’89
Wenhua Shi ’15
West, Jennifer ’13
Wilkins, Tim ’95, ’99, ’04
Wojtaski, Pawel ’13
Worden, Fred ’87, ’93
Yasinsky, Karen, ’14
Youngblood, Gene ’83, ’87, ’05, ’16
Zdravic, Andrej ’80, ’92

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