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 filmmaker, visual artist, curator, and media scholar currently based in Chicago. His creative practice is centered on queer storytelling through an autobiographical and archival lens, and he makes films and videos about queer history, representation, identity, and sexuality engaged in formal, narrative, and aesthetic experimentation. His work counters mainstream and stereotypical images of gay men and youth by using appropriated text, photos, sound, and video to make visible the hidden, sometimes unflattering, and often unarchivable traces of queer experience. His work is also informed by a queer media-archaeological methodology, which manifests in his use of obsolete and found media, as well as a self-reflexive aesthetic that foregrounds the materiality of the moving image and its processes of mediation. His award-winning films are distributed by Vtape and Light Cone and have screened at festivals, galleries, and museums internationally, including Antimatter Media Art Festival, Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, London Experimental Film Festival, and Beijing International Short Film Festival.

His broader research focuses on queer cinema and art, experimental film and video, media archaeology, and archival practice. He is currently a PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago and holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

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