Bryan Konefsky

Bryan Konefsky is a cultural worker dedicated to the advancement of undependent, experimental media arts through his work as a moving image artist, teacher, lecturer and film festival director. Konefsky is the founder and director of Experiments in Cinema, an annual international film festival in Albuquerque that showcases cinematic experimentation from around the world. Additionally, he is the president of Basement Films, one of the few remaining first generation micro cinemas in the United States.

From 1995–2020, he taught moving image production and critical studies through the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of New Mexico, where he was honored in 2009 with a university-wide Teacher of the Year award. Konefsky was an invited lecturer in the Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 2003–2018. Presently, he lectures at Dongguk University in South Korea.

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