School of Film/Video

Paul Kyle has been involved professionally with digital video and post production since 1995. As a video artist, Paul has exhibited in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and China. Paul earned a BA in Visual Arts from Bennington College, and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art... Continue reading »

Gary Mairs has taught in the School of Film/Video since 1997, splitting his time between the Program in Film Directing and the Program in Film & Video. He teaches courses in Film History (including seminars on Realist style, the Western, Rock and Roll movies and ‘70s genre film) and... Continue reading »

Considered a cinematic feminist pioneer and one of America’s foremost independent filmmakers, Nina Menkes has shown widely in major international film festivals including multiple premieres at Sundance, the Berlinale, Cannes (ACID), Rotterdam, Locarno, Toronto, La Cinematheque Francaise,... 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 »

Julie Murray is an artist, film and video maker. Her film and digital works have been exhibited at national and international venues including the New York Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the London Film Festival ,the Flaherty... Continue reading »

Ben Neufeld is a filmmaker and colorist living in Los Angeles. His films often exist on the boundaries between documentary and fiction, combining the formal conventions of the two in order to magnify or reflect the assumptions we make about truth. He was born and raised in New York City, got his... Continue reading »