Betzy Bromberg has been making experimental 16mm films since 1976. She was Director of the Program in Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts (2002a-2019), and before that Bromberg spent many years as a camerawoman and supervisor for the production of optical effects in the Hollywood special effects industry, utilising skills honed in her astonishing kaleidoscopic experimental films. Her work often explores women’s psychic interiors and threats to an autonomous body through performance and raw collage techniques, provocative imagery, and humour, tautly woven together by evocative soundtracks. These deeply personal films touch on repressive social structures, American landscapes, ritual and intimacy. Her work has been shown at the Rotterdam, London, Edinburgh, Sundance and Vancouver Film Festivals as well as the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the San Francisco Cinematheque, the Harvard Film Archive (Cambridge), Anthology Film Archives (New York City), the National Film Theater (London), The Vootrum Centrum (Belgium), and the Centre Georges Pompidou (France). Alongside her filmmaking, Bromberg worked as a long-time optical effects supervisor to the film industry, on iconic Hollywood pictures including Tremors (Ron Underwood, 1990) Terminator II: Judgement Day (James Cameron, 1991), and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992).