Betzy Bromberg is an American experimental filmmaker

Experimental film

Experimental film or experimental cinema is a type of cinema. Experimental film is an artistic practice relieving both of visual arts and cinema. Its origins can be found in European avant-garde movements of the twenties. Experimental cinema has built its history through the texts of theoreticians...

. She is currently Director of the Program in Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...

. Her work has been shown at the Rotterdam, London

London Film Festival

The BFI London Film Festival is the UK's largest public film event, screening more than 300 features, documentaries and shorts from almost 50 countries. The festival, , currently in its 54th year, is run every year in the second half of October under the umbrella of the British Film Institute...

, Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Film Festival

The Edinburgh International Film Festival is an annual fortnight of cinema screenings and related events taking place each June. Established in 1947, it is the world's oldest continually running film festival...

, Sundance

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

 and Vancouver

Vancouver International Film Festival

The Vancouver International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for two weeks in late September and early October...

 Film Festivals as well as the Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art

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 (New York City), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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, the San Francisco Cinematheque

San Francisco Cinematheque

San Francisco Cinematheque is a film society founded in 1961 by a group of filmmakers, including Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand. Working with other groups like Canyon Cinema, the SF Cinematheque has shown experimental film and video in cooperation with venues such as San Francisco Art Institute,...

, the Harvard Film Archive

Harvard Film Archive

The Harvard Film Archive is a film archive devoted to cinema located in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It maintains a collection of over 9000 films and related documents, and regularly screens films in its 210 seat theater...

 (Cambridge), Anthology Film Archives

Anthology Film Archives

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 (New York City), the National Film Theater (London), The Vootrum Centrum (Belgium) and the Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...

 (France).

Bromberg studied at CalArts in the late 1970s with Chick Strand

Chick Strand

Chick Strand was an experimental filmmaker, "a pioneer in blending avant-garde techniques with documentary".-Life:...

, and for many years was an optical effects supervisor in the special effects industry.

Selected Filmography

• Voluptuous Sleep Series (2011)
  • I. Language is a Skin
  • II. And the Night Illuminated the Night
• A Darkness Swallowed (2005)
• Divinity Gratis (1996)
• Body Politic (1988)
• Az Iz (1983)
• Marasmus (1981)
• Soothing the Bruise (1980)
• Ciao Bella (1978)
• Petit Mal (1977)

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