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.

Spring 2024 Schedule

Feb 5th - Eric Leiser

Eric Leiser is an award-winning filmmaker, animator, puppeteer, writer, holographer and multi-media artist working in the New York and London area. A graduate from CalArt's Experimental Animation program, Leiser creates animated and live action feature films and shorts as well as works integrating animation, puppetry, holography, live performance and installation. Leiser is interested in how animation transforms perception when it is combined with live action space, creating a fantastical, spiritual, or surrealistic quality.

His most recent solo exhibitions include: The Horse Hospital Museum in London, The Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco, Galerie Entropia in Poland, MaRS Gallery in Los Angeles, Galerie du Haut Pave in Paris, Sound of MU Gallery in Oslo, Flux Factory/Holocenter in New York City, Fringe Exhibitions Gallery in Los Angeles, Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Ruben H. Fleet Space Museum in San Diego, Goldsmiths, University of London and Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland.

Recent group exhibitions include: The Whitney Museum of American Art, The MIT Museum, MassMoCA, Armory Arts Center, Holocenter Museum, Spencer Brownstone Gallery and Cabinet Magazine among others.

His animated/live action films have screened at the: Whitney Museum of American Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art Antwerp, The Istanbul Modern Museum of Art, Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Museum, MASS MoCA, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas Muse-um de Buenos Aires, The Ruben H. Fleet Space Museum, Four-Dimensions Space Art Museum Beijing, The Exploratorium Museum, The Wexner Center, (BFI) British Film Institute, Anthology Film Archives, Los Angeles Filmforum, San Francisco Film Society, Aster Arts Plaza Hiroshima, Armory Art Center, Oxford University, Goldsmiths-University of London, Royal College of Art, Harvard University, California Institute of the Arts, The Art Institute in Chicago, The New School, SVA, Pratt Institute, The Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing and Sonoma State University among others. His films have screened in the world's top film festivals most recently at the Cannes Film Festival, Annecy International Animation Festival and the Hiroshima International Animation Festival. His recent 4th feature film Apocalypsis was released by Lionsgate in 2018.

March 4th - Alison Nguyen

Alison Nguyen is a New York-based artist whose work spans video, installation, performance, and sculpture. Her work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, MIT List Center for Visual Arts, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, The Everson Museum, The Dowse Art Museum, e-flux, The International Studio & Curatorial Program, AC Gallery Beijing, Signs and Symbols, KAJE, Ann Arbor Film Festival, CPH:DOX, International Film Festival Oberhausen, Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, among others. Nguyen received her MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University and her BA in Literary Arts from Brown University. She is currently a 2023–2024 Studio Artist in the Whitney Independent Studies Program.

April 15th - Sofia Gallisá Muriente

Sofía Gallisá Muriente is an artist whose research-based practice resists colonial erasures and claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining. Her work deepens the subjectivity of historical narratives and contests dominant visual culture through multiple approaches to documentation. She employs text, image and archive as medium and subject, exploring their poetic and political implications. Sofía has been a fellow of the Smithsonian Institute, Cisneros Institute at MoMA, Puerto Rican Arts Initiative, Annenberg Media Lab at USC and the Flaherty Seminar, and participated in residencies with the Vieques Historical Archive, Alice Yard (Trinidad & Tobago), FAARA (Uruguay) and Fonderie Darling (Montreal), among others. She has exhibited in Documenta, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Queens Museum, Savvy Contemporary, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, and galleries like Km 0.2 and Embajada. From 2014 to 2020, she co-directed the artist-run organization Beta-Local. In 2023 she was awarded the Latinx Artist Fellowship.

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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