Betzy Bromberg

• “As with all of Bromberg’s films, there are images that, once seen, will stay with you forever, and then there are the colours – rich, luscious hues to be savoured slowly…  a reminder of cinema’s organic basis in chemistry and light, and of its ability to take us deep inside.”

  — Holly Willis, LA Weekly

Betzy Bromberg has been making experimental films since 1976. Her most recent film, Glide of Transparency (2016/17), completes her 16mm abstract feature trilogy.  It premiered at the Redcat Theater in Los Angeles and was listed as one of the year’s best films in both Senses of Cinema (Jordan Cronk) and Fandor (Michael Sicinski and Jordan Cronk). Her previous film, Voluptuous Sleep (2011), had its festival premiere at the New York Film Festival: Views From The Avant-Garde.  Voluptuous Sleep was listed as one of the Best Films for 2011 in both the New York Times (Manohla Dargis) and Indiewire (Andrea Picard).  Scott MacDonald included it in his Highlights 2012 in Lumiere Magazine and published an interview with Ms. Bromberg in his book, Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema. 

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 to becoming the Director of the Program in Film and Video 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.