Mark Toscano

Mark Toscano is a filmmaker, curator, and film preservationist based in Los Angeles. He specializes in the curation, conservation, and preservation of independent artists’ films. He works with the collections of approximately 200 filmmakers, and has overseen the preservation and restoration of several hundred films, including work by Stan Brakhage, Barbara Hammer, John Waters, Chick Strand, Tacita Dean, Penelope Spheeris, the Whitney brothers, Sharon Lockhart, Gus Van Sant, Pat O’Neill, Suzan Pitt, Satyajit Ray, the Maysles, Les Blank, and many others.

He has curated and presented programs at numerous venues, including MoMA, Arsenal, Eye Filmmuseum, Centre Pompidou, and festivals in Rotterdam, London, Oberhausen, Zagreb, Bangalore, Seoul, and elsewhere. He programs screenings of experimental cinema independently and with Zena Grey as Lightstruck, as well as with Los Angeles Filmforum.  He has lectured at various universities on experimental film and archiving, in addition to teaching in the Experimental Animation department at CalArts. His films are distributed by Canyon Cinema and Light Cone.