School of Film/Video

KANG MIN KIM, an LA-based multiple award winning Korean filmmaker and designer who holds both a BFA and MFA from Calarts’s Experimental Animation program. He is a highly creative and multitalented stop motion artist with a strong background in stop motion and motion graphics and his... Continue reading »

Chris Morocco, the son of a professional pyrotechnician father, was introduced to the entertainment industry while still in his mother's stomach. In high school, he started creating music and films with one of his best buds to this day, Ryan Coogler. In college, at San Francisco State... Continue reading »

Leighton PIerce is an experimental and documentary media artist and educator working in film, video, sound, installation and more recently in TikTok, Instagram etc. with over 500 screenings in international venues including multiple screenings at Sundance, Rotterdam, New York, and Ann Arbor film... Continue reading »

Alexander Stewart is a filmmaker and curator who received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His short films have been exhibited in festivals internationally. He co-curated the Flaherty NYC’s 2019 series “Puzzling”, which has since been developed into a... Continue reading »

Mark Toscano is a filmmaker, curator, and film preservationist based in Los Angeles. Since 2003, he has worked at the Academy Film Archive, where he specializes in the curation, conservation, and preservation of artists’ films. He works with the collections of over 150 filmmakers, and has... Continue reading »

Jackie Turpin is an artist and educator living in Los Angeles. Her practice is rooted in animation and takes the form of saturated, hyper-kinetic short films, installations, and performances that explore the interweaving of personal mythology, popular culture and media histories. Her work has... Continue reading »