Curriculum Vitae
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS/PERFORMANCES
2023
Collision Center - Los Angeles Film Forum - Los Angeles, CA
2022
What It Is Impossible Not to Know and What It Is No Longer Permissible to Believe in the United States – Stoveworks Gallery – Chattanooga, TN
2019
Angeles Dreaming – Artist Film Workshop – Melbourne, Australia
2018
Spotlights on the Brick Wall (with Alee Peoples) – LaborBerlin – Berlin, Germany
Spotlights on the Brick Wall (with Alee Peoples) – WORM – Rotterdam, Netherlands
Spotlights on the Brick Wall (with Alee Peoples) – Cavia – Amsterdam, Netherlands
VISIONS – La Lumière Collective – Montreal, Canada
Juror Presentation – Milwaukee Underground Film Festival – Milwaukee, WI
2017
Toward The Concrete – Headroom Cinema – Iowa City, IA
Toward The Concrete – Microlights Cinema – Milwaukee, WI
Toward The Concrete – Nightingale Cinema – Chicago, IL
Toward the Concrete – A.P.E. Gallery – Northampton, MA
Toward the Concrete – Sight Unseen Cinema – Baltimore, MD
2016
MY SYMBOLS FOR TRUTH – No Nothing Cinema – San Francisco, CA
Black Hole Cinematheque – Oakland, CA
2015
Half Human, Half Vapor Expanded – Echo Park Film Center – Los Angeles, CA
2014
Oracles and Atmosphere (with Alee Peoples) – AS220 Gallery – Providence, RI
Connectivity Through Cinema – Center for Performance Research – Brooklyn, NY
On One Foot, Arms Outstretched – Projector Performance – Echo Park Film Center
2013
In Between – Projection/sound performance – KCHUNG – Los Angeles, CA
2010
Emotional Rescue II – Projector Performance – Soft Approach – Providence, RI
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS/GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
International Film Festival Rotterdam - Rotterdam, Netherlands
First Look - Museum of the Moving Image - Queens, NY
Los Angeles Festival of Movies - Now Instant Image Hall - Los Angeles, CA
The Places We Call Home - Artist Film Workshop - Melbourne, Australia
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Milwaukee, WI
Moviate Film Festival - Harrisburg, PA
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2023
Media City Film Festival - Windsor, Canada
Light Matter - Alfred, NY
The Observers – Koganei-City Nakamachi Tenjinmae Community Center – Tokyo, Japan
Later Experiments in Feedback – Anthology Film Archives – New York, NY
Stray, With the Body – Woodbine – Queens, NY
Local Waters – Crisp-Ellert Art Museum – St. Augustine, FL
2022
Experiments in Cinema – Albuquerque, NM
Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair – New York, NY
Press Play – Moisturizer Gallery – Gainesville, FL
2021
Slamdance – Park City, UT
European Media Arts Festival – Osnabrück, Germany
Printed Matter Book Fair – New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) – Miami, FL
A Concrete Cloud – Hyde Park Art Center – Chicago, IL
Friends With Benefits – Videodrome – Marseilles, France
Dog Star Orchestra 17 – Los Angeles, CA
Silver Dusk – Los Angeles, CA
Process Festival – Riga, Latvia
Pugnant Goes Punk – Athens, Greece
2020
Ann Arbor Film Festival – Ann Arbor, MI
Exis Festival – Seoul, South Korea
Light Field – San Francisco, CA
All Time Stop Now – Coaxial Arts Foundation – Los Angeles, CA
The World’s Worst – Online Exhibtion
Onion City Film Festival – Chicago, IL
European Media Arts Festival – Osnabrück, Germany
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival – Iowa City, IA
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival – Milwaukee, WI
Fracto – Berlin, Germany
Printed Matter Book Fair – Online Exhibition/Artist Talk
2019
Human Resources – Los Angeles, CA
Classic Hell on Earth – Capitol Theatre – Olympia, Washington
Parallel Inquiries – Culver Center for the Arts – Riverside, CA
Nomadica – Bologna, Italy
Mono No Aware – Brooklyn, NY
Florida Experimental Film Festival – Tampa, FL
2018
Acid Free – Blum & Poe – Los Angeles, CA
Between Relating – High Desert Test Sites – Yucca Valley, CA
Fire, Freeway & Flood – West Coast US Touring Program
(S8) IX Mostra de Cinema Periférico – A Coruña, Spain
Light/Landscape Sense – Macao – Milan, Italy
Hello From The Other Side – Far Off Art Fair – Cologne, Germany
In Between – Uplink – Tokyo, Japan
Nightingale 10 – Nightingale Cinema – Chicago, IL
2017
A Day In The Sun – Echo Park Film Center and Machine Project – Los Angeles, CA
Astral Projections – Anthology Film Archives – New York, NY
Athens International Film and Video Festival – Athens, OH
Exposure – Kopernik Observatory & Science Center – Vestal, NY
Back To The Future – Filmwerkplaats – Rotterdam, Netherlands
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival – Milwaukee, WI
Experiments In Cinema – Albuquerque, NM
Supernormal – Oxfordshire, UK
Process Festival – Riga, Latvia
Fracto – Berlin, Germany
Big Ears Festival – Knoxville, TN
$100 Film Festival – Calgary, Canada
Frame Bursting – Sign Gallery – Groningen, Netherlands
The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival – Morgantown, WV
Plastik Festival – Dublin, Ireland
Kyiv International Short Film Fesitval – Kiev, Ukraine
European Media Arts Festival – Osnabrück, Germany
Iowa City Documentary Festival – Iowa City, IA
San Diego Underground Film Festival – San Diego, CA
Other Cinema – San Francisco, CA
2016
International Film Festival Rotterdam – Rotterdam, Netherlands
New York Film Festival – Projections – New York, NY
Images Festival – Ontario, Canada
Scenario II: Let's Get This Thing Going – ACRE Projects – Chicago, IL
SEGUEING – Character Projects – Los Angeles, CA
Going Hard – Grand Union – Birmingham, United Kingdom
Future Projections – Moog Fest – Durham, NC
BLAM Projects – Los Angeles, CA
FESTIVAL DES CINÉMAS DIFFÉRENTS DE PARIS – Paris, France
Institute of Modern Art – Brisbane, Australia
Fields Festival – Baltimore, MD
Exis Festival – Seoul, South Korea
The Resonance of Shadow – Saitama, Japan
Lima Independiente Festival de Cine – Lima, Peru
European Media Arts Festival – Osnabrück, Germany
Light Field – San Francisco, CA
Onion City Film Festival – Chicago, IL
Crossroads Film Festival – San Francisco Cinematheque – San Francisco, CA
Athens International Film and Video Festival – Athens, OH
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival – Minneapolis, MN
Unexposed Microcinema – Durham, NC
FRAME, RE-FRAME – Arsenal – Berlin, Germany
Les Inattendus – Lyon, France
Beneath The Myth – Iris Film Collective – Vancouver, BC
San Diego Underground Film Festival – San Diego, CA
WNDX Festival of The Moving Image – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2015
New York Film Festival – Projections – New York, NY
Courtisane Festival – Ghent, Belgium
European Media Arts Festival – Osnabrück, Germany
Ann Arbor Film Festival Touring Program – US and Western Europe
Frontiera Festival International Documentary Festival – Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil
Crossroads Film Festival – San Francisco Cinematheque – San Francisco, CA
Dallas Medianale – Dallas, TX
Adelaide Film Festival – Adelaide, Australia
New American Experimental Film – Kino Lab – Warsaw, Poland
FOL Sunar: Amerikan Deneysel Sineması'ndan Seçkiler – Istanbul, Turkey
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Edinburgh, Scotland
DINCA Vision Quest – Museum of Contemporary Art – Chicago, IL
Braquage – Paris, France
Anthropocentricities – INOVA Gallery – Milwaukee, WI
Imagine Science Film Festival – New York, NY
New American Experimental Film – Kino Lab – Warsaw, Poland
Kyiv International Short Film Festival – Kiev, Ukraine
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival – Milwaukee, WI
Chicago Underground Film Festival – Chicago, IL
$100 Film Festival – Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival – Haverhill, MA
Florida Experimental Film Festival – Gainesville, FL
Frames From the Golden State – Sign Gallery – Groningen, Netherlands
2014
Toronto International Film Festival – Wavelengths – Ontario, Canada
New York Film Festival – Projections – New York, NY
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam – Netherlands
Ann Arbor Film Festival – Ann Arbor, MI
#AWKWARD – Plug Projects – Kansas City, MO
Hong Kong International Film Festival – Kowloon, Hong Kong
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Scotland, UK
Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independente – Buenos Aires, Argentina
Los Angeles Filmforum presents LA<===>AA – Los Angeles, CA
Burning Bungalows Film Tour – Mexico and American Southwest
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival – Haverhill, MA
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Generation Loss – Artist Television Access – San Francisco, CA
Chicago Underground Film Festival – Chicago, IL
Crossroads Film Festival – San Francisco Cinematheque – San Francisco, CA
Australian International Experimental Film Festival – Perth and Melbourne, Australia
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival – Milwaukee, WI
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival – Iowa City, IA
New Works Salon – Echo Park Film Center – Los Angeles, CA
Sight Unseen Cinema – Baltimore, MD
2013
New York Film Festival – Views from the Avant-Garde – New York, NY
DINCA Vision Quest – Mana Contemporary Gallery – Chicago, IL
Cinematheque 108 – USC School of Cinematic Arts – Los Angeles, CA
Abstraction Reaction – Machine Project – Los Angeles, CA
Temporary Ocean (in Light and Sound) – Boston, MA and Providence, RI
New Works Salon – Echo Park Film Center – Los Angeles, CA
SFMOMA Countdown Celebration – San Francisco, CA
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival – Milwaukee, WI
Iowa City Documentary Film Festival – Iowa City, IA
2012
Some Unseen Lights – Amsterdam, NE
FR3AK, W31RD0, H0RR0R, M4CABR3 – AS220 Gallery – Providence, RI
2011
Ebb and Flow – RK Projects – Providence, RI
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival – Milwaukee, WI
2010
RISCA Fellowship Exhibition – Imago Gallery – Warren, RI
Wide Open Broken – White Vinyl Space – Miami, FL
2009
Shivering Shelves – Dirt Palace – Providence, RI
AWARDS
2019
Lecturer Development Grant Award – California State University San Marcos
2017
LightPress Grant
2016
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts Artist Project Grant (via Echo Park Film Center)
2015
Best Experimental Film – Athens International Film and Video Festival
Foundation for Contemporary Arts – Emergency Grant
Honorable Mention – Haverhill Experimental Film Festival
2013
Jury Prize Award – Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences – Artist Production Fellowship
2012
Fotekem Production Grant
2011-2014
The CalArts Scholarship
2011
Top Prize Award – Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
2009
Merit Award in Film and Video – Rhode Island State Council for the Arts
RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS
2022
Stoveworks Residency – Chattanooga, TN
2015
Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions (ACRE) – Stueben, WI
2011
LEF Foundation Robert Flaherty Seminar Fellowship
DISTRIBUTION
Canyon Cinema (United States)
Light Cone (Europe)
COLLECTIONS
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Film Archive
California Institute of the Arts
University of Iowa
University of South Carolina
FILM AND VIDEO WORKS
2023
Holographic Will (16mm / 5:15)
2021
Tomorrow: It’s not too late to join (HD / 7:30)
2020
Something To Touch That Is Not Corruption Or Ashes Or Dust (16mm / 7:00)
2019
Classic Hell On Earth – collaboration with Gun Outfit and Joe Denardo (performance for 16mm projector, digital projector, live musicians / 60:00)
2017
Lost, Present Tense (3x16mm to HD / looping)
2016
Spotlight on a Brick Wall – collaboration with Alee Peoples (16mm / 8:00)
2015
Half Human, Half Vapor (16mm / 12:00)
2014
Under the Atmosphere (16mm / 15:00)
2013
With Pluses and Minuses (16mm / 5:00)
2012
Ten Notes on a Summer's Day (HD / 4:30)
Down on the Ground (16mm / 1:00)
2010
Emotional Rescue II (16mm / 5:00)
Give me Shapes – collaboration with Hannah Lew (Dual Super 8 projection / 3:00)
In Between (16mm / 5:00)
PUBLICATIONS
2023
Collision Center III - Pegacorn Press
2022
Collision Center II – Pegacorn Press
2021
Collision Center – Pegacorn Press
2018
“Listening to the Space” – Visionary Film
SELECT DISCOGRAPHY
2021
Psychic Parking cassette
Teenage Waistband discography 10” record – Independent Woman Records
2015
Half Human Half Vapor Soundtrack lathe-cut 7” record
2010
Clear Leader cassette – Gross Domestic Product
2008
Crude Hill On Stilts cassette – Flowing Well Records
2007
Teenage Waistband I Saw What I Wanted to See cassette – TWB Records
2006
Rare Youth Compilation 2xCD as Feral Children and Teenage Waistband – Rare Youth
2005
All The Days Are Numbered So CD/book as Reactionary 3 – Harlan Records
2004
split LP with True North as Reactionary 3 – Obscurist Press
split LP with Impractical Cockpit as Nuclear Family – Friends & Relatives Records
2003
Reactionary 3 7" record – Obscurist Press
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023 - Present
Lecturer - Cinema Department - Binghamton University
2020 – 2023
Special Faculty – Film and Video – California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
2017 – Present
Lecturer – Art, Media, and Design – California State University San Marcos
2020
Lecturer – Visual Arts – University of California San Diego
2017 – 2019
Lecturer – Fine Arts/Film – Cerritos College
2014 – 2016
Teaching Associate – Film and Video – California Institute of the Arts
2015
Graduate Advisor (Remote) – Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2012-2014
Teaching Assistant – 16mm Film Production – California Institute of the Arts
COURSES TAUGHT
Spring 2024
CINE 351/541 - Filmmaking II: 16mm Filmmaking - Binghamton University
CINE 252 - Filmmaking I - Binghamton University
CINE 122 - Expression and Innovation in Film and Video - Binghamton University
Fall 2023
CINE 380K - Recycled and Reimagined - Binghamton University
CINE 252 - Filmmaking I - Binghamton University
CINE 122 - Expression and Innovation in Film and Video - Binghamton University
Spring 2023
FPFV-553/153 – Cinematic Voices – California Institute of the Arts
Fall 2022
FPFV-204 – 16mm Film Production Workshop – California Institute of the Arts
AMD 311 (10) – Introduction to Video Arts – California State University San Marcos
AMD 311 (20) – Introduction to Video Arts – California State University San Marcos
Spring 2022
FPFV-553/153 – Cinematic Voices – California Institute of the Arts
FPFV-340 – Undergraduate Critique – California Institute of the Arts
Fall 2021
FPFV-204 – 16mm Film Production Workshop – California Institute of the Arts
AMD 404 – Advanced Video Production – California State University San Marcos
AMD 311 (10) – Introduction to Video Arts – California State University San Marcos
AMD 311 (20) – Introduction to Video Arts – California State University San Marcos
Spring 2021
AMD 311 (10) – Introduction to Video Arts – California State University San Marcos
AMD 311 (20) – Introduction to Video Arts – California State University San Marcos
Fall 2020
AMD 311 (10) – Introduction to Video Arts – California State University San Marcos
AMD 311 (20) – Introduction to Video Arts – California State University San Marcos
Spring 2020
FPFV449 – On the Edge of Narrative – California Institute of the Arts
VIS 131 – 16mm Filmmaking – University of California San Diego
VIS 180A – Documentary Evidence and the Construction of Authenticity in Current Media Practices – University of California San Diego
Fall 2019
AMD 311 – Introduction to Video Arts – California State University San Marcos
AMD 330 – Experimental Media Production – California State University San Marcos
AMD 122 – Survey of World Cinema – California State University San Marcos
Spring 2019
VSAR 303 – Introduction to Video Arts – California State University San Marcos
FILM 104 – Motion Picture and Digital Cinematography – Cerritos College
Fall 2018
VSAR 303 – Introduction to Video Arts – California State University San Marcos
FILM 101 – Motion Picture Production – Cerritos College
Spring 2018
VSAR 306 – Video in the Community – California State University San Marcos
FILM 104 – Motion Picture and Digital Cinematography – Cerritos College
Fall 2017
VSAR 303 – Introduction to Video Arts – California State University San Marcos
FILM 101 – Motion Picture Production – Cerritos College
Spring 2016
FPFV205/505 – 16mm Film Production Workshop II – California Institute of the Arts
Fall 2015
FPFV204/504 – 16mm Film Production Workshop I – California Institute of the Arts
Spring 2015
FPFV205/505 – 16mm Film Production Workshop II – California Institute of the Arts
Fall 2014
FPFV204/504 – 16mm Film Production Workshop I – California Institute of the Arts
LECTURES/VISITS/WORKSHOPS
2021
Visiting Artist – 16mm Film Production – California Institute of the Arts
Artist Talk – The Unpossessable Possessor – European Media Arts Festival
Artist Talk – Collision Center – Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair
2019
Visiting Artist – The Chadwick School – Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
2018
Master Class – Filmwerkplaats – Rotterdam, Netherlands
Guest Lecturer – Film and Television Production MFA – Loyola Marymount University
Visiting Artist – Sculpture Studio – Otis College of Art and Design
2017
Guest Lecturer – Moving Image: The Interval – University of Illinois Chicago
Guest Lecturer – Film Production – University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Visiting Artist – Cinematic Arts – University of Iowa
Guest Lecturer – Theory and Practice – Maryland Institute College of Art
Guest Lecturer – Experimental Film Production – Otis College of Art and Design
Visiting Artist – 16mm Film Production – Amherst College
Guest Lecturer – Handmade Cinema – Dartmouth College
Guest Lecturer – Advanced Video Production – Keene State University
2016
Visiting Artist – 16mm Film Production – Bard College
2014-2015
Introduction to 16mm Filmmaking– Echo Park Film Center
2013
Guest Lecturer – Research and Inquiry Seminar – California Institute of the Arts
2011
Visiting Artist – Issues and Images – Rhode Island School of Design
Visiting Artist – Handmade Strategies – Dartmouth College
SERVICE WORK AND TRAINING
2022-2023
Academic Council Special Faculty Representative – Schools of Art, Critical Studies, Film/Video, and Library Services – California Institute of the Arts
2019
UndocuAlly (Undocumented/AB540/Dreamer Student Ally) Training Certification
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2014-2021
Cooperative Member, Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, CA)
2020
Juror – California State University San Marcos Student Media Festival
2018
Assistant Engineer – Film Soundtrack Restoration – Duplitech (Torrance, CA)
Juror – Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Juror – Cerritos Film Festival
2017
Location Sound for Fern Silva (Artist) – Rock Bottom Riser (Super 16mm Feature Film)
2016-2017
Assistant Engineer – Film Soundtrack Restoration – Endpoint Audio (Burbank, CA)
2014-2015
Director of Photography for Aaron Garber-Maikovska (Artist) – multiple exhibitions
2013
Assistant Camera for Stanya Kahn (Artist) – Don’t Go Back to Sleep (HD feature film)
2012
Production Assistant for Jodie Mack (Artist) – Dusty Stacks of Mom (16mm feature film)
2011-2014
Film Inspection and Repair Technician – California Institute of the Arts
2008-2010
House Manager – AS220 Performance Space (Providence, RI)
2006-2007
Programming – Magic Lantern Cinema (Providence, RI)
2005
Print Traffic Coordinator – Florida Experimental Film Festival (Gainesville, FL)
2000-2005
Collective Member – Wayward Council (Gainesville, FL)
EDUCATION
California Institute of the Arts – Valencia, CA
Master of Fine Arts, Film and Video
University of Florida – Gainesville, FL
Bachelor of Arts, English
Santa Fe Community College – Gainesville, FL
Associate of Arts
PROGRAMMING/CURATORIAL
2022-2023
Arroyo Seco Cine Club Series – Art in the Park – Los Angeles
Cinematic Voices - California Institute of the Arts - Valencia, CA
2022
If I Were Any Further Away I’d Be Closer to Home: Films by Rajee Samarasinghe – Los Angeles Filmforum
2018
Everything You See on this Trip is Real – La Lumière Collective – Montreal, Canada
Organized Activities: Films by Nellie Kluz – Echo Park Film Center
Something From Nothing – AgX Collective – Echo Park Film Center
2017
Hybrid Cinema – Expanded Film/Video by Michael Morris – Echo Park Film Center
Carlos Gonzalez: Buy This Car – Echo Park Film Center
Life On Another Planet (Los Angeles Poverty Department) – Echo Park Film Center
Theater of Conflict – New Protest Cinema from Latin America – Echo Park Film Center
2016
Note to Self: The Psychosexual Films of Nazli Dincel – Echo Park Film Center
The Films of Fern Silva – Echo Park Film Center
Roger Beebe: NO LA – Echo Park Film Center
2015
LAX --- WYG – Winnipeg Film Society – Winnipeg, Ontario
Stephanie Barber's Jhana and the Rats of James Olds – Echo Park Film Center
SHIT HITS: Video Work by Dylan Sharp – Echo Park Film Center
2014
Waiting for the Big One – Videofag Gallery – Toronto
Recent Works by Suzy Poling – Echo Park Film Center
Kelman Duran's To The North Pt. 1 – Echo Park Film Center
2012-2013
Not Reconciled: Selections from the Archive – California Institute of the Arts
2012
Sunset Screening (Commissioned by Los Angeles Art Resource) – Los Angeles, CA
Yankee Clutter: Recently Skewed Histories – Los Angeles, CA and Oakland, CA
2008-2009
Terms of Psychic Warfare (Bi-monthly video/film series) – AS220 – Providence, RI
2006-2007
The Danger Show, The Wastelandscape Show, The Time Show – Magic Lantern Cinema – Providence, RI
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Attard, Paul, “Feedback, Part 2”, Screen Slate, July 2023
Delgado, Monica, “IFFR Rotterdam 2024: Experimental Program ‘Fine Grain’, Desistfilm, February 2024
Enns, Clint, “Re-Imagined Space: An Interview With Mike Stoltz”, Incite Journal, Fall 2014
Goldberg, Max, “Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Crossroads 2016”, SFAQ, April 2016
Hansen, James, “Continuing Interference”, Brooklyn Rail, May 2016
Harrison, Ben, “In Kingdom Come”, EXCLAIM!, April 2016
Hunter, Alexander, “'Under The Atmosphere' Director Mike Stoltz Talks Nature and NASA”, Film Society of Lincoln Center Blog, October 2014
Low, Trisha, “Seeking a Way to Touch Through Film in a Time of Isolation”, Art In America, May 2020
Picard, Andréa, “Something in the Atmosphere” Toronto International Film Festival Program, 2014
Savirón, Mónica, “NYFF 2013/Views From The Avant-Garde”, LUMIÈRE, Fall 2013
Schlemowitz, Joel, Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera, Routledge Press, 2019
Sicinski, Michael, “NYFF 2015 Projections: Flipping Through Channels”, MUBI Notebook, October 2015
Windhausen, Federico, “Projections at the 2015 New York Film Festival”, Cineaste, Fall 2015
Yue, Genevieve, “Into the Mystic: Report from the 17th Views from the Avant-Garde at the New York Film Festival”, Reverse Shot, Issue 33