First Person Cinema is the longest running university program in the world screening avant-garde film and video work. It was started in 1955 by Carla Selby and Gladney Oakley under the name "The Experimental Cinema Group", and was later carried forward by Bruce Conner and Stan Brakhage. Now called First Person Cinema, the program invites film/video artists to Boulder to present their work in person with the intention of bringing an awareness of the personal cinema. First Person Cinema has become a highly respected international showcase and was programmed by Don Yannacito from 1965 to 2021. It is now programmed by Moving Image Arts faculty.

Hugo Ljungbäck is a Swedish filmmaker, visual artist, curator, and media scholar currently based in Chicago. His creative practice is centered on queer storytelling through an autobiographical and archival lens, and he makes films and videos about queer history, representation, identity, and sexuality engaged in formal, narrative, and aesthetic experimentation. His work counters mainstream and stereotypical images of gay men and youth by using appropriated text, photos, sound, and video to make visible the hidden, sometimes unflattering, and often unarchivable traces of queer experience. His work is also informed by a queer media-archaeological methodology, which manifests in his use of obsolete and found media, as well as a self-reflexive aesthetic that foregrounds the materiality of the moving image and its processes of mediation. His award-winning films are distributed by Vtape and Light Cone and have screened at festivals, galleries, and museums internationally, including Antimatter Media Art Festival, Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, London Experimental Film Festival, and Beijing International Short Film Festival.

His broader research focuses on queer cinema and art, experimental film and video, media archaeology, and archival practice. He is currently a PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago and holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.