Ryan is co-director and head curator of San Diego Underground Film Festival (MovieMaker Magazine Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee), has programmed for Slamdance Film Festival, has taught Adjunct at CalArts, and is currently a Lecturer at UC San Diego in the Cinematic Arts Program.
His films have screened at Fantasia, Slamdance, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Porto Post/Doc, Hammer Museum, REDCAT, Desert Daze, and have won awards at Slamdance, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Indie Memphis, Arizona Underground.
His band Shrine Maiden's album And I Arise was named one the Top 10 Experimental Albums of 2020 by Outtallectuals zine. Their 4th album is due out October 31st 2025 on Whited Sepulchre Records.
Ryan holds an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and a BA in Visual Art from UC San Diego.
KNOWN FOR
Sun Sonification
2021
Pudding
2015
Cousins
2021
婦人 (Fujin)
2020
False Expectations
2023
Tropical Fractals
2026
Zablah
2018
The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)
2017
kāua - we (you and i)
2023
A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973
2019
A Storm at Sea
2025
Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming
2018