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 ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ 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, SΓ£o Paulo, Brazil; Video Brasil, SΓ£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’s 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 β€œfeminist fairy tales” 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’s 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 ’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