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Brian Ratigan is an award-winning director and film curator. He is the founder of Non Films, a label for ephemeral animation and experimental cinema in New York City. Ratigan is established in the film festival circuit as a programmer and juror for the Slamdance Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Indie Memphis, and the London Indie Festival, among others. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Moviemaker Magazine, 1883 Magazine, and film festivals worldwide. He currently runs a bimonthly screening series titled DarkRoom that presents short films throughout multiple boroughs in NYC and beyond.
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Film Festival Programming
2026
Slamdance Film Festival (Co-Captain)
Atlanta Film Festival
Sidewalk Film Festival
Ithaca Experimental Film Festival (Presenter)
DarkRoom (Curator and Host)
2025
Slamdance Film Festival (Co-Captain)
Atlanta Film Festival
Ithaca Experimental Film Festival (Presenter)
Oxford Film Festival (Programming Director)
Tallgrass Film Festival (Vortex)
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Sidewalk Film Festival (Presenter)
Embryogallery Film Festival (Presenter)
Festival of Cinema NYC (Jury)
DarkRoom (Curator and Host)
2024
Slamdance Film Festival (Jury, Co-Captain)
Atlanta Film Festival
Oxford Film Festival (Programming Director)
Tallgrass Film Festival (Vortex)
Sidewalk Film Festival (Presenter)
Embryogallery Film Festival (Presenter)
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Film & Video Poetry Symposium
DarkRoom (Curator and Host)
2023
Slamdance Film Festival (Jury, Co-Captain)
Atlanta Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Ithaca Experimental Film Festival (Jury)
Salute Your Shorts Film Festival (Jury)
Sidewalk Film Festival (Presenter)
WEG Weekend Miami (Presenter)
Indie Memphis Film Festival
Tallgrass Film Festival
DarkRoom (Curator and Host)
2022
Slamdance Film Festival
Atlanta Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Sidewalk Film Festival (Presenter)
Indie Memphis Film Festival
AFI Fest
Holidays 365 Film Festival (Jury)
Axiom Cinema (Guest Curator)
Art of Brklyn Film Festival (Guest Curator)
2021
Slamdance Film Festival
Rockaway Film Festival (Guest Curator)
Chicago Underground Film Festival
ANNY: Animation Nights New York
Charlotte Film Festival
2020
Slamdance Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
ATBC Short Video Contest (Jury)
Charlotte Film Festival
2019
Slamdance Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Knoxville Film Festival Challenge (Jury)
Sidewalk Film Festival (Presenter)
People of Passion International Film Festival
2018
Slamdance Film Festival
Sidewalk Film Festival (Presenter)
Scruffy City Film & Music Festival (Jury)
2017
London Indie Festival (Jury)
Sidewalk Film Festival (Presenter)
Lectures, Residencies, Speaking
2026: Temple University Guest Filmmaking Lecture (Philadelphia, PA)
2026: Stupid Co. Chat #4 (virtual)
2025: NY Screening: “WTO/99” (DCTV, NY)
2025: Temple University Guest Filmmaking Lecture III (Philadelphia, PA)
2025: Berlin Documentary Meetup: “Richard Twice” (Berlin)
2025: NY Premiere: “Giving Up” (Roxy Cinema, NY)
2025: The New School Guest Filmmaking Lecture (The New School, NY)
2025: NY Premiere: “Antarctic Voyage” (Anthology Film Archives, NY)
2025: NY Screening: “Hippo” (Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, NY)
2025: Temple University Guest Filmmaking Lecture II (Philadelphia, PA)
2025: TueShop Guest Lecture (ART Space Brooklyn)
2025: TueShop Guest Lecture (virtual)
2025: Temple University Guest Filmmaking Lecture (Philadelphia, PA)
2024: DocShop Guest Lecture (National Opera Center, NY)
2024: DocShop Guest Lecture (virtual)
2024: NY Screening: “Relative” (Spectacle Theater, NY)
2024: NY Screening: “Butterfly in the Sky” (DCTV, NY)
2024: NY Screening: “If All the Roots Caught the Stars” (Anthology Film Archives, NY)
2024: NY Screening: “Weeknights” (Bronx Independent Cinema Center, NY)
2023: Temple University Guest Filmmaking Lecture (Philadelphia, PA)
2023: WEG Weekend Guest Panel Lecture (MAD Studios, Miami)
2023: Temple University Guest Filmmaking Lecture (Philadelphia, PA)
2023: NY Screening: “Relative” (Spectacle Theater, NY)
2021: Pratt Animation Senior Lecture (Pratt Institute, NY)
2021: 1883 Lateral Geographies Filmmaker Residency (virtual)
2019: Film and Video Poetry Society Lecture (Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, NY)
PRESS
2026: Nothing Bogus: “On the Power of Texture: An Interview with director Aidan Cronin”
2026: The Locavore Guide: “The Return of Physical Media: an Interview with Night Owl Video”
2025: Screen Slate: “Best Movies of 2025: First Viewings & Discoveries and Individual Ballots”
2025: Interview with director Richard Hunter: “FOUL EVIL DEEDS”
2025: Screen Slate: “Pomp & Circumstance”
2024: Screen Slate: “Best Movies of 2024: First Viewings & Discoveries and Individual Ballots”
2024: The Locavore Guide: “What Happened to Kim’s Video?”
2024: The Locavore Guide: “Sterling Records”
2023: Moviemaker Magazine: “How Do I Get Into Slamdance?”
2023: The Locavore Guide: “Troubled Sleep Bookstore”
2023: Dust on the VCR: Richard Linklater “Slacker” Discussion
2023: The Locavore Guide: “10 Analog NYC Camera Shops”
2022: To Each Their Own Cinema: Filmmaker Interview
2022: 1883 Magazine: Filmmaker Interview
2021: Lateral Geographies: Filmmaker Interview
2018: Tiny Mix Tapes: “Last Night” review
Curation
Non Films Presents DarkRoom (Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx 2023 – ongoing)
Non Films Presents (New York, 2013 – ongoing)
SoLo Gallery (Jacksonville, 2011 – 2013)
Film Haus (Birmingham, 2010 – 2011)
Final Broadcast (Birmingham, 2008 – 2010)
