Kathy Geritz was the Film Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum•Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), with a focus on experimental, documentary, and independent cinema. Before retiring in 2023 after four decades, she presented hundreds of series exploring world cinema from the silent era to the present. She taught film courses at the University of California at Berkeley for twenty years, as well as both an internship and an occasional graduate course in film curating. Geritz was the International Film Curator in residence at the Len Lye Center in New Zealand, and did special presentations at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Brakhage Center Symposium, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Flaherty Symposium. She is a coeditor of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000, and cocurator of the related film series and tour.
Kathy Geritz was the Film Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum•Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), with a focus on experimental, documentary, and independent cinema. Before retiring in 2023 after four decades, she presented hundreds of series exploring world cinema from the silent era to the present. She taught film courses at the University of California at Berkeley for twenty years, as well as both an internship and an occasional graduate course in film curating. Geritz was the International Film Curator in residence at the Len Lye Center in New Zealand, and did special presentations at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Brakhage Center Symposium, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Flaherty Symposium. She is a coeditor of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000, and cocurator of the related film series and tour.
