{"id":18114,"date":"2021-10-27T22:13:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T22:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/?p=18114"},"modified":"2021-10-27T23:15:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T23:15:28","slug":"ben-balcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/ben-balcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Balcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benbalcom.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11974 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/balcom-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/balcom-headshot-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/balcom-headshot-2.jpg 461w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/balcom-headshot-3.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Ben Balcom<\/a> (b. 1986, Massachusetts) is a filmmaker currently living and working in Milwaukee, WI. He is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin\u2014Milwaukee and is the co-founder and co-programmer of Microlights Cinema. Since 2013, Microlights has hosted over 50 film and video artists from around the world. Combining elements of documentary, fictional narrative, and abstraction, Balcom\u2019s films investigate the relationship between cinematic artifice and ordinary affects. He has explored melodrama, essay film, and, most recently, regional histories.<\/div>\n<div>His films have been exhibited at venues and festivals such as the European Media Festival, Media City Film Festival, Anti-Matter Media Arts, Alchemy Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Slamdance. Balcom received his MFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and his bachelor\u2019s degree in Film-Video Production from Hampshire College.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The books I mentioned in the interview are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars_trilogy\">Kim Stanley Robinson&#8217;s Mars Trilogy<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/products\/sho\">Douglas Kearney&#8217;s Sho<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/306319387?h=9a76cc4f50\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/306319387\">Garden City Beautiful<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/benbalcom\">Ben Balcom<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/403121580?h=7bcf33fc09\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/403121580\">News From Nowhere<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/benbalcom\">Ben Balcom<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Balcom (b. 1986, Massachusetts) is a filmmaker currently living and working in Milwaukee, WI. He is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin\u2014Milwaukee and is the co-founder and co-programmer of Microlights Cinema. Since 2013, Microlights has hosted over 50 film and video artists from around the world. Combining elements of documentary, fictional narrative, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18120,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114\/revisions\/18120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}