Ryeberg Curator Bio

Chris Gehman

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Chris Gehman is an independent filmmaker, media arts programmer, educator and critic. His film, "Dark Adaptation," premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and screened at the 2017 Berlinale. Other films include "Refraction Series" (2009), "Contrafacta," co-directed with Roberto Ariganello (2000), and "First Dispatch from Atlantis" (1993). As an independent programmer, Chris has organized screenings for venues including Experimenta (Bangalore), B92/Rex Cultural Centre (Belgrade), the Winnipeg Film Group/Manitoba Cinematheque, Image Forum (Tokyo), Lago Film Fest (Italy), and the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA). He was a programmer and editor at Cinematheque Ontario from 1997 to 2000, and Artistic Director of the Images Festival from 2000 to 2004. His writings on experimental media have appeared in a number of anthologies and periodicals, such as Millenium Film Journal, Cinema Scope, Broken Pencil and Prefix Photo, and he edited "Explosion in the Movie Machine: Essays and Documents on Toronto Artists' Film and Video" (2013), and co-edited "The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema" (2005) with Steve Reinke. More Chris Gehman here.