Betzy Bromberg, Director of the Program in Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts, has been making experimental films since 1976. Her newest film, a Darkness Swallowed (2005), premiered at the REDCAT Theater in Los Angeles and was presented in the Frontier Section of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. It has recently screened at the Seoul Film Festival (South Korea), the Athens International Film Festival (Greece), the Seattle International Film Festival (Washington) and the Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona (Spain). Ms. Bromberg’s films have shown extensively in museums, cultural venues and festivals within the United States and abroad, Most notably, her work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the San Francisco Cinemateque, the Harvard Film Archives (Cambridge), Anthology Film Archives (New York City), the National Film Theater (London), The Vootrum Centrum (Belgium) and the Centre Georges Pompidou (France). Previous films have shown at the Rotterdam, London, Edinburgh, Sundance and Vancouver Film Festivals. Ms. Bromberg has had retrospectives of her films at Film Forum (Los Angeles) and the Cinema Project (Portland). She has an upcoming retrospective of her films at the 9th Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente.

Previous to becoming the Director of the Program in Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts, Ms. Bromberg worked in the Hollywood special effects industry for many years as a supervisor and camerawoman for the production of optical effects in major motion pictures.