Ben Balcom is a filmmaker and educator based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is a professor in the Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Balcom makes films about the world as it is perceived, remembered, and imagined otherwise. His work moves between material and immaterial experience, the actual and the imagined, what happened and what might still be possible.
His films have screened internationally at venues and festivals including the Museum of the Moving Image, New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, European Media Arts Festival, IndieLisboa, Media City Film Festival, and Ann Arbor Film Festival. He has received awards from Onion City, Athens International Film + Video Festival, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. In 2023, he was a research fellow at the Center for 21st Century Studies.
He also co-founded Microlights Cinema, a microcinema that ran from 2013 to 2023, dedicated to bringing experimental film and video art to audiences in Milwaukee.
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