Cinematic Voices
Betzy Bromberg, Director of the Program in Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts since 2002, has been making experimental films since 1976. Previous to becoming the program director, Betzy worked in the Hollywood special effects industry as a supervisor and camerawoman for the production of optical effects in several major motion pictures. Ms. Bromberg had a Retrospective at Anthology Film Archives in NYC this summer.
Her film,
Voluptuous Sleep won the Stan Brakhage award at the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival (2012). Also in 2011, both
Voluptuous Sleep and
A Darkness Swallowed (2005) screened at the Guggenheim Bilbao (Spain).
Voluptuous Sleep screened at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (BAFICI 2012), the Bradford International Film Festival (United Kingdom) and CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre of Performing Arts (Montreal) as part of Suoni per iI Popolo Avant-Garde Music Festival.
"Bromberg delivers a true cinematic alchemy: her meticulous work on the physicality and tactile quality of the texture of the 16mm stock, its emulsion, layers and sensitivity to light, opens up toward a glimpse of the unknown, of the ineffable. The darkness is no longer "swallowed;" it is transmuted into radiant light." - Bérénice Reynaud
"As with all of Bromberg's films, there are images that, once seen, will stay with you forever, and then there are the colors - rich, luscious hues to be savored slowly... The film is also a gift to us, a reminder of cinema's organic basis in chemistry and light, and of its ability to take us deep inside." - Holly Willis, LA Weekly