Ryan is co-director and head curator of San Diego Underground Film Festival (MovieMaker Magazine Top 50 Festivals Worth the Entry Fee), and has programmed for Slamdance Film Festival, taught at CalArts, lectured at SDSU, Stephens College, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and UC San Diego. Ryan has an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and a BA in Visual Art from UC San Diego. As a filmmaker Ryan's films have screened at Ann Arbor Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Slamdance, Chicago Underground, Florida Film Festival, New Orleans Film festival, Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, Artifact Small Format, Antimatter Media Art, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival, Athens International, Indie Memphis, Montreal Underground, Winnipeg Underground, Portland Underground, Sydney Underground, Arizona Underground, Moviate Underground, among others..
A Peculiar Week in My Dream Journal May 1973
The Sacred Mushroom Edition (For Kenneth Anger, by way of Kuchar)
Paper Chase
Cup of Stars
Pudding
The Second Body
Towards the Experimental Control of Dreaming
There Must Be a Safe Space to Load the Building Materials
Zablah
Cousins
The Flaw in the Crystal
Sun Sonification
A Collection of Attempts in Astral Travel
Girl Becomes Snow
An Example of Lee-Roth Fog, Isolated Under Laboratory Conditions
False Expectations
The Mandela Effect
kāua - we (you and i)
Before She Leaves Her Body
kino lau: many bodies
