Ben Balcom
Ben Balcom is a filmmaker, educator, and programmer living in Milwaukee, WI. Working across mediums, including 16mm film and appropriated digital imagery, Balcom makes movies that explore abstract ideas of perception, psychology, and affect. Balcom is an associate lecturer at UWM and is the technical director for the Milwaukee Film Festival. He is also the curator and co-founder of Microlights, a pop-up cinema that specializes in presenting experimental film. Over the past two years, Microlights has hosted over 40 visiting film/video artists from across the world.
Notes from the Interior | USA 2016 | 16mm to HD | 11 min
Wandering through the body puzzling out a system of symbols. The trouble is, affect resists signification outright. The inside and outside become muddled when you start to feel your body in relation to an image.