Dan Barnett

Daniel Barnett studied analytic philosophy with KJ Shah who was a student of Ludwig Wittgensteins He has been making films continuously since 1967 He was uniontrained as an editor has worked professionally as director of photography sound recordist sound and picture editor producer writer and most recently Executive Producer for Educational Projects at bePictures Inc in San Rafael CA He has taught film production and film theory at SUNY Binghamton Mass College of Art UMASS Boston The San Francisco Art Institute and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is the author of the book Movement as Meaning in Experimental Film published by Editions Rodopi Amsterdam NY in 2008 He has produced hundreds of film experiments and experimental films won a National Endowment for the Arts grant as well as many other regional grants and awards His films are in collections in New Zealand Australia and France