About
Ryan is co-director and head curator of San Diego Underground Film Festival (MovieMaker Magazine Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee), has programmed for Slamdance Film Festival, has taught Adjunct at CalArts, and is currently a Lecturer at UC San Diego in the Cinematic Arts Program. His films have screened at Fantasia, Slamdance, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Porto Post/Doc, Hammer Museum, REDCAT, Desert Daze, and have won awards at Slamdance, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Indie Memphis, Arizona Underground.
Filmography
Tropical Fractals2026 · Associate Producer, Sound Recordist
A Theory of /Cloud/2025 · Director, Music
A Storm at Sea2025 · Producer, Music
Operation Wandering Soul ////////// Ghost Tape Number 102025 · Director, Writer
Ua 'ike au2025 · Director
And I Arise (Reprise)2025 · Producer, Music
kino lau: many bodies2024 · Director
body / negative - everett (feat. Midwife)2023 · Director
False Expectations2023 · Music, Producer
kāua - we (you and i)2023 · Producer
An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions2022 · Director
The Flaw in the Crystal2021 · Director
Cousins2021 · Producer
Sun Sonification2021 · Director
The Second Body2020 · Director
婦人 (Fujin)2020 · Producer
A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 19732019 · Director, Writer
A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel2019 · Director
There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials2018 · Director
Zablah2018 · Director, Writer