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 by Professor Jeanne Liotta and Moving Image Arts faculty.

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


 

Spring 2024 Schedule

Oct 21 - Tenzin Phuntsog

Tenzin Phuntsog is a Tibetan-American artist living and working between San Francisco and New York and working with the mediums of film, installation, multi-media, and performance.  He works primarily as an artist and director, and lenses his own hybrid projects. In his work, Phuntsog, who has had his repeated attempts to enter his ancestral home denied, confronts his existence in a state of exile. The practice touches into themes of presence and belonging as well as landscape and language. His works have previously exhibited and screened at The Rubin Museum, New York; Anthology Film Archives, New York; The Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Galerie Vermelho, S茫o Paulo, Brazil; Video Brasil, S茫o Paulo, Brazil; among others. Recent Fellowships and residencies include a Marble House residency (2022), NARS Residency (2021), and a Flaherty Fellowship (2019). Tenzin Phuntsog received a BA in Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in New York.

https://tenzinprojects.com/

Nov 4 - Cecelia Condit

Presenting Cecelia Condit with the Vision Award. Since 1981, Condit鈥檚 videos have created heroines whose lives swing between beauty and the grotesque, innocence and cruelty, youth and fragility. Her work puts a subversive spin on the traditional mythology of women in film and the psychology of sexuality and violence. Exploring the dark side of female subjectivity, her 鈥渇eminist fairy tales鈥 focus on friendships, age, and the natural world. She has shown internationally in festivals, museums and alternative spaces, and is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France. She has received numerous film festival awards, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mary L. Nohl Foundation. She鈥檚 a professor emerita in the Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she was the director of the graduate program in film for 30-years. 

https://www.ceceliacondit.com/

Previous Visiting Artists

  • Ahwesh, Peggy 鈥90, 鈥13
  • Alsharif, Basma 鈥17
  • Andersen, Thom 鈥11
  • Anger, Kenneth 鈥81
  • Angerame, Dominic 鈥97
  • Anker, Steve 鈥06
  • Antin, Eleanor 鈥06
  • Archer, Ina 鈥22
  • Asili, Ephraim 鈥17
  • Aurand, Ute 鈥12
  • Avikunthak, Ashish 鈥11
  • Baillie, Bruce 鈥85, 鈥12
  • Baldwin, Craig 鈥10
  • Barber, Stephanie 鈥00, 鈥16
  • Barlow, Melinda 鈥97, 鈥98, 鈥99
  • Baron, Rebecca 鈥15
  • Battle, Christina 鈥09
  • Beavers, Robert 鈥12, 鈥17
  • Beckman, Ericka 鈥85, 鈥12
  • Beloff, Zoe 鈥08
  • Benning, James 鈥06, 鈥09, 鈥22,
  • Berliner, Alan 鈥86, 鈥87, 鈥92, 鈥99
  • Blanchard, Jenny 鈥89
  • Blank, Les 鈥88
  • Biermann, Gregg 鈥16
  • Boord, Dan 鈥04
  • Boultenhouse, Charles 鈥82
  • Brakhage, Marilyn 鈥97, 鈥98
  • Brakhage, Stan 鈥76 - 鈥00
  • Breer, Emily 鈥93
  • Breer, Robert 鈥78, 鈥86, 鈥05
  • Bridgers, Lee 鈥91, 鈥93
  • Brodsky & Treadway 鈥82
  • Bromberg, Betsy 鈥98, 鈥07
  • Broughton, James 鈥77, 鈥81
  • Bruck, Patti 鈥90
  • Burr, Peter 鈥20, 鈥23
  • Cameron, Donna 鈥97
  • Camper, Fred 鈥01
  • Caplan, Elliot 鈥08
  • Chase, Doris 鈥86, 鈥87, 鈥92
  • Child, Abigail 鈥90, 鈥98, 鈥11
  • Christman, Sarah 鈥20
  • Cokes, Tony 鈥07
  • Columbus, John 鈥89, 鈥00, 鈥01 鈥11
  • Conner, Bruce 鈥77, 鈥85
  • Conrad, Tony 鈥83
  • Creely, Robert 鈥78
  • Criss Cross 鈥78
  • Crosthwaite, Hugo 鈥22
  • Cuthand, TJ 鈥22
  • Davis, Sandra 鈥86
  • Delanda, Manuel 鈥83
  • Dinell, David 鈥12
  • Dobermann, Gary 鈥 78
  • Dorsky, Nathaniel 鈥89, 鈥99, 鈥03, 鈥06, 鈥07, 鈥15
  • Downey, Juan 鈥88
  • Duke and Battersby 鈥19
  • Dunferd, Mike 鈥77
  • Eisenberg, Dan 鈥98
  • Elder, Bruce 鈥88, 鈥93, 鈥99, 鈥01
  • Emshwiller, Ed 鈥84
  • Espelie, Erin 鈥16
  • Export, Valie 鈥88
  • Farrel, Christian 鈥95
  • Felker, Lori 鈥16
  • Fenz, Robert 鈥04
  • Fischinger, Elfriede 鈥80
  • Fitzgerald, Kit 鈥85
  • Fleming, Shellie 鈥95
  • Fonoroff, Nina 鈥94, 鈥04
  • Frampton, Hollis 鈥81
  • Freidrich, Su 鈥97
  • Fuerman, Carol 鈥04
  • Fulton, Robert 鈥76
  • Gardner, Robert 鈥91
  • Gatten, David 鈥03, 鈥17
  • Gault, Tony 鈥03
  • Gaylor, Bob 鈥79
  • Gehr, Ernie 鈥77, 鈥78, 鈥79, 鈥05, 鈥09
  • Geiser, Janie 鈥99, 鈥06
  • George, Amir 鈥18
  • Gianvito, John 鈥10
  • Gibson + Recoder 鈥19
  • Gibson, Sandra 鈥07
  • Gidal, Peter 鈥76
  • Gilooly, Jane 鈥15
  • Gluckstern, Jay 鈥89
  • Godmilow, Jill 鈥78, 鈥00
  • Gorin, J.P. 鈥06
  • Goss, Jackie 鈥08
  • Green, Vanalyne 鈥91
  • Greenfield, Amy 鈥79
  • Grenier, Vincent 鈥79, 鈥89, 鈥94, 鈥01, 鈥14, 鈥19
  • Gusella, Ernest 鈥85
  • Guttnplan, Howard 鈥77
  • Haller, Eve 鈥03
  • Halter, Ed 鈥09
  • Hammer, Barbara 鈥89, 鈥99, 鈥18
  • Heit, Laura 鈥07
  • Heller, Eve 鈥00
  • Herbert, Jim 鈥99
  • Hills, Henry 鈥82, 鈥95
  • Hindle, Will 鈥77, 鈥84
  • Hock, Louis 鈥04
  • Holdt, Jacob 鈥85
  • Hopinka, Sky 鈥18
  • Hoskins, Courtney 鈥03
  • Hutton, Peter 鈥88, 鈥96, 鈥07
  • Im, Hyun 鈥95
  • Iris, Denise 鈥13
  • Jacobs, Ken 鈥78,- 鈥04
  • Jennings, Jim 鈥98
  • Jordan, Larry 鈥82, 鈥84, 鈥94, 鈥14
  • Jost, John 鈥86, 鈥07
  • Kaul, Shambhavi 鈥15
  • Keller, Marjorie 鈥83
  • Kitchen, Diane 鈥02
  • Klahr, Lewis 鈥92, 鈥01, 鈥05, 鈥13
  • Klosky, Linda 鈥91
  • Knecht, John 鈥10
  • Kraning, Laura 鈥17
  • Kren, Kurt 鈥78, 鈥82, 鈥94
  • Kubelka, Peter 鈥77
  • Kuchar, George 鈥82, 鈥83, 鈥88, 鈥06
  • Laitala, Kerry 鈥09
  • Landow, George 鈥76, 鈥79
  • LaPore, Mark 鈥97, 鈥05
  • Larcher, David 鈥77
  • Lawder, Standish 鈥80, 鈥90
  • Le Grice, Vi Malcolm 鈥76
  • Leacock, Richard 鈥80, 鈥84, 鈥85
  • Leaf, Caroline 鈥93
  • Lee, Francis 鈥77
  • Legget, Mike 鈥76
  • Lertxundi, Ladia 鈥14
  • Leventhal, Dani 鈥11
  • Levine, Saul 鈥92, 鈥08, 鈥16
  • Liotta, Jeanne 鈥07
  • Lipman, Ross 鈥18
  • Lowder, Rose 鈥87, 鈥12
  • Lowe, Pelle 鈥96
  • Lucier, Mary 鈥86
  • Lusztig, Irene 鈥19
  • Luther, John 鈥77, 鈥79
  • Mack, Jodie 鈥14
  • Madsen Minex, Angelo 鈥22
  • Mann, Kathleen 鈥02
  • Marslett, Geoff 鈥15
  • Matreyek, Miwa 鈥08
  • Maxy, Fox 鈥21
  • Maysel, Albert 鈥77
  • Mclean, Jesse 鈥15
  • Morrison, Bill 鈥00
  • Moulton, Shana 鈥11
  • Mouris, Frank 鈥78
  • Muller, Matthias 鈥94, 鈥00
  • Murray, Julie 鈥01, 鈥06
  • Myers, Richard 鈥78
  • Myers, Skinner 鈥21
  • Nelson, Gunvor 鈥79, -鈥92
  • Nelson, Robert 鈥79
  • Nishikawa, Tomonari 鈥10
  • Noren, Andrew 鈥81
  • O鈥橬eill, Pat 鈥82, 鈥10
  • Ondine 鈥82
  • Otis, James 鈥84, 鈥99
  • Owusu, Akosua Adoma 鈥17
  • Oxygen, Anna 鈥08
  • Palazzolo, Tom 鈥77, 鈥87
  • Peterson, Sidney 鈥76, 鈥80
  • Pierce, Leighton 鈥97, 鈥02
  • Piller, Madi 鈥18
  • Plays, Dana 鈥05
  • Plumb, Shannon 鈥12
  • Price, Luther 鈥00
  • Pryce, Charlotte 鈥23
  • Rappmund, Peter Bo 鈥11
  • Ravett, Abraham 鈥04
  • Recoder, Luis 鈥00, 鈥07
  • Reed, Mary Beth 鈥01
  • Reeder, Jennifer 鈥05
  • Reeves, Dan 鈥97
  • Reeves, Jennifer 鈥96, 鈥03, 鈥16
  • Renwick, Vanessa 鈥09
  • Rey, Nicholas 鈥13
  • Reynolds, Reynold 鈥02
  • Rimmer, David 鈥99
  • Rivera, Alex 鈥21
  • Robenson, Michael 鈥08
  • Rose, Peter 鈥90, 鈥98, 鈥08
  • Rowe, Phil 鈥02
  • Rubin, Jon 鈥77, 鈥78
  • Rumsby, Martin 鈥85
  • Russell, Ben 鈥10
  • Sachs, Lynne 鈥14
  • Saks, Lynn 鈥96
  • Samarasinghe, Rajee 鈥22
  • Sanders, Talena 鈥14
  • Saxs, Erin 鈥94
  • Schaller, Robert 鈥98, 鈥03
  • Scheuren, Zach 鈥01
  • Schilling, Alphonse 鈥80
  • Schneemann, Carolee 鈥78, 鈥85
  • Sears, Kelly, 鈥14
  • Seid, Steve 鈥06, 鈥11
  • Sharits, Paul 鈥79, 鈥81
  • Sherman, David 鈥03
  • Silva, Fern 鈥15
  • Sitney, P. Adams 鈥79, 鈥10, 鈥17
  • Smith, Jack 鈥80
  • Snider, Dean 鈥86
  • Snow, Michael 鈥90
  • Solomon, Phil 鈥91 - 鈥04, 鈥11
  • Sonbert, Warren 鈥84
  • Stamets, Bill 鈥86
  • Stark, Scott 鈥93, 鈥13
  • Steers, Stacey 鈥90, 鈥07, 鈥12
  • Steiner, Konrad 鈥00
  • Stephens, Courtney 鈥23
  • Sternberg, Barbara 鈥08
  • Stiglicz, Zach 鈥95
  • Strand, Chick 鈥80
  • Stratman, Deborah 鈥09
  • Street, Mark 鈥96, 鈥14
  • Sullivan, Chris 鈥01
  • Szlam, Malena 鈥19
  • Thornton, Leslie 鈥88
  • Torosian, Garine 鈥01, 鈥02
  • Trainer, James 鈥06
  • Valdovino, Luis 鈥96, 鈥99, 鈥04
  • Vanderbeek, Stan 鈥83
  • Vasulka, Steina 鈥84, 鈥95, 鈥12
  • Vasulka, Woody 鈥89, 鈥12
  • Velez, Edin 鈥91
  • Vesulka, Woody & Steina 鈥79
  • Vigil, Carmen 鈥76, 鈥80
  • Viola, Bill 鈥83
  • Voorhuis, Nelly 鈥89
  • Wenhua Shi 鈥15
  • West, Jennifer 鈥13
  • Wilkins, Tim 鈥95, 鈥99, 鈥04
  • Wojtaski, Pawel 鈥13
  • Worden, Fred 鈥87, 鈥93
  • Yasinsky, Karen, 鈥14
  • Youngblood, Gene 鈥83, 鈥87, 鈥05, 鈥16
  • Zdravic, Andrej 鈥80, 鈥92