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Bryan Konefsky is a cultural worker dedicated to the advancement of undependent,
experimental media arts through his work as moving image artist,
teacher, lecturer and film festival director. He teaches moving image production
and critical studies in 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 is artistic director of Experiments in Cinema, an annual international
film festival in Albuquerque that showcases cinematic experimentation from
around the world. He serves as a panelist for the New Mexico Film Office's New
Visions filmmaking awards, he is a member of the board of advisors for the Ann
Arbor Film Festival (the oldest experimental festival in the United States), a guest
curator for the Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and an experimental film
judge for Videofest sponsored by the Dallas Video Association in Texas.
Konefsky lectures at colleges and universities internationally, among them the
University of Applied Sciences in Wurzburg, Germany, the University of Pisa in
Italy, The Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, the University of Windsor in
Ontario, Canada; the University of California at Santa Cruz, Ohio University, and
the University of Michigan.
Konefsky's work has been published by Peripheral Produce, Incite, The
Appropriation Alliance, Precious Real , The Alternative Film/Video Festival in Belgrade, and Otherzine.
His moving image work has been supported by grants from the McCune
Charitable Foundation, New Mexico Arts, The National Endowment for the
Humanities, The Trust For Mutual Understanding, The National Endowment for
the Arts, and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. His own films and
installations have been presented internationally at venues such as Blinding Light
Cinema in Vancouver, the Videoex Festival in Switzerland, the Erarta Museum for
Contemporary Art in Russia, the Paris Underground Film Festival in France,
Cinema Ritrovato in Italy, the Oslo Film Institute in Norway, the European Media
Arts Festival in Germany, the Long Beach Museum of Art in California, and the
premiere experimental film venues in New York City, Anthology Film Archives and
Millennium Film Workshop.
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Secession From The Broadcast trailer 1F
Miss Yummy Yummy
Does Anyone Ever Really Quit?
Fertile Ground Corporate Slug
You Are Here
Let Me Say This About That.
Shoe Shine Cinema: Confusion is Sexy
I Yam What I Yam
Vancouver
Chicken Delight
LUMPEN TLVSN (short film) - "You Are Here"
Little Brown Babies
I Yam What I Yam
Moya Sestra
Bryan Konefsky
PO Box 9337, Albuquerque New Mexico 87119
505.235.1852
bkonefsky@gmail.com