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 Moving Image Arts faculty.

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

Spring 2026 Schedule

Hugo LjungbΓ€ck is a Swedish artist, curator, and scholar whose work examines the intersections of queer art, experimental film and video, media archaeology, and archival studies. His research investigates the materiality of the moving image and its processes of mediation, and his essays have appeared in Found Footage Magazine, Cinema & Cie, and Media, War & Conflict. His award-winning films and videos interrogate queer history, representation, identity, and sexuality through an autobiographical lens, and have screened at over 75 film festivals, art galleries, and museums internationally. His work is distributed by Vtape and Light Cone.

He is a PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies at the ³ΤΉΟΝψ of Chicago and holds an MFA in Studio Art from the ³ΤΉΟΝψ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Collections and Cataloging Fellow with the South Side Home Movie Project and serves as Co-chair of the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ Small Gauge and Amateur Film Committee and Co-Secretary of Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema.

Kamila Kuc is a Polish-born filmmaker, based between London and Seattle. Her work unfolds at the intersection of performance and documentary, testimony and dream to explore ecologies of memory, ancestral wisdom, and embodied resistance. She is drawn to exploring how we relate to one another - emotionally, historically, politically - through gestures of trust, repair, and shared presence that emerge in moments of vulnerability and exchange. Rooted in hybrid nonfiction forms, media poetics and Slavic mythology, her films investigate the entanglements of identity, memory, and survival. She uses film to excavate counter-histories and create intimate, embodied encounters that activate memory as a force of resistance and connection.

Her most recent short, I Was There (2025), won Best Experimental Film at the New Jersey International Film Festival. Her Plot of Blue Sky (2023) premiered at the 27th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival and received the 2024 BAFTSS Practice Research Award and the Jean Rouch Award at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival. Her films have been shown in over 20 countries and includes screenings at Videoex, BFI London Film Festival, ICA London, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Hawai’i International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Oberhausen, Anthology Film Archives, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, among many others. Her work has been extensively reviewed by a leading documentary film scholar, Dara Waldron in the 10th edition of (October 2024).

She is the founder of Dark Spring Studio, a London-based production company supporting artist moving image work that lives between forms and invites new ways of sensing and inhabiting the world.

Previous Visiting Artists

  • Ahwesh, Peggy ’90, ’13, '25
  • Alsharif,ΜύBasma ’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
  • Condit, Cecelia '24
  • 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
  • Elsaessar, Carl '25
  • 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
  • Gallagher, Kelly '25
  • 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
  • Leiser, Eric '23
  • 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
  • Phuntsog, Tenzin '24
  • 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
  • Seno, Shireen '25
  • 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