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Ben Balcom

Ben BALCOM (1986, USA) is a filmmaker based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is the co-founder and co-programmer of Microlights Cinema, a microcinema specializing in presenting contemporary film and video art. Balcom received his Bachelor’s degree in Film and Video Production from Hampshire College and his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His films have been exhibited at venues and festivals internationally, including IFFR.

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Filmography

(selection, all short) Speculations (2016), The Sequence of Years (2017), Garden City Beautiful (2019), News From Nowhere (2020), Looking Backward (2022),Growing Up Absurd (2023)

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Ben Balcom op IFFR

  • Growing Up Absurd

    Ben Balcom, Julie Niemi | 15' | USA | World premiere

    A disinterment of College F (aka Tolstoy College), an anarchist pedagogical space operating between 1969 and 1985.