Anthony Buchanan

Biography

Anthony Buchanan (US) is a San Francisco-based filmmaker, curator, internationally published film scholar and Bay Area subcultural historian. He has lectured on topics ranging from "Esoterics in Experimental Film" to "Found Footage, Derrida and the Trace" to "The History of Experimental Film in SF" and has contributed to multiple academic publications. A regular on the Other Cinema calendar, his films have screened from San Francisco to Chicago to Mexico and beyond. Founder of Denver-based microcinema "Cinema Contra" and Bay Area-based "Magic Lantern," Buchanan has been hosting and organizing experimental film programs for 15 years.