Visiting Artists

To ensure that students have an opportunity to examine the widest possible cross section of contemporary practices in the art of the moving image, the School regularly invites leading film- and videomakers, animators, media artists and screenwriters to share their experience and insights with students through lectures, workshops, discussions and other presentations. In recent years, visitors have included:

Program in Film & Video

• Chantal Akerman
• Kenneth Anger
• ®™ark
• Sadie Benning
• Patrick and Michèle Bokanowski
• Nick Broomfield
• Ellen Bruno
• Charles Burnett
• Shu Lea Cheang
• Jem Cohen
• Cui Zi’en
• Kirby Dick
• Daniel Eisenberg
• Harun Farocki
• Su Friedrich
• CocoFusco
• Ernie Gehr
• John Gianvito
• Thomas Allen Harris
• Peter Hutton
• Ken Jacobs
• Jon Jost
• Shiho Kano
• Mani Kaul
• Naomi Kawase
• Ken Kobland
• Jeanne Liotta
• Sharon Lockhart
• Trinh T. Minh-ha
• Julie Murray
• Pat O’Neill
• silt
• Britta Sjögren
• Cauleen Smith
• Phil Solomon
• ChickStrand
• Jean-Marie Teno
• Leslie Thornton
• Peter Tscherkassky
• Bill Viola
• Yang Fudong

Program in Experimental Animation

• Martha Colburn
• Sally Cruickshank
• Larry Cuba
• Eric Darnell
• Robert Darroll
• David Em
• Janie Geiser
• JoAnn Gillerman
• Copper Giloth
• George Griffin
• Ray Harryhausen
• Solweig von Kleist
• Igor Kovalyov
• Manfred Mohr
• Marcos Novak
• Van Phan
• Bill Plympton
• Joanna Priestley
• Jennifer Reeves
• Kathy Rose
• Bradley Schenck
• Henry Selick
• Larry Sider
• Agueda Simo
• Jennifer Steinkamp
• Jan Švankmajer
• Suzie Templeton
• Jane Veeder
• John Whitney Jr.

Program in Character Animation

• Mark Andrews
• James Baxter
• Brad Bird
• Dave Bossert
• Ken Bruce
• Brenda Chapman
• Peter Chung
• Alice Davis
• Andreas Deja
• Ralph Eggleston
• Eric Goldberg
• Mark Hamill
• Chris Hubbard
• Andrew Jimenez
• Linda Jones
• Jason Katz
• Glen Keane
• Bert Klein
• Bob Kurtz
• John Lasseter
• Caroline Leaf
• Robert Lence
• Craig McCracken
• Mike Nguyen
• Sue Nichols
• Yuri Norenstein
• Bobby Podesta
• Nik Ramieri
• Carlos Ramos
• Deborah Ross
• Chris Saunders
• Arlene Sherman
• Stephen Silver
• David Skelly
• Doug Sweetland
• Charles Swenson
• Genndy Tartakovsky
• Ted Thomas
• Alex Topete
• Glenn Vilppu
• Mark Walsh
• John Woo
• Doug Wood
• Ellen Woodbury
• Kathy Zielinski

Film Directing Program

• Allison Anders
• Ramin Bahrani
• Hartmut Bitomsky
• Charles Burnett
• Cathy Lee Crane
• Jim Finn
• Rodrigo García
• Amos Gitai
• Ed Harris
• Susan Hegarty
• Ted Hope
• Miranda July
• Joseph Gordon Levitt
• Ewan McGregor
• James Mangold
• Sally Menke
• Theron Patterson
• Mark and Michael Polish
• David Shire
• George Tillman
• Agnès Varda
• Caveh Zahedi