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.

Kamila Kuc is a Polish-born filmmaker, based between London and Seattle. Her work unfolds at the intersection of performance and documentary, testimony and dream to explore ecologies of memory, ancestral wisdom, and embodied resistance. She is drawn to exploring how we relate to one another - emotionally, historically, politically - through gestures of trust, repair, and shared presence that emerge in moments of vulnerability and exchange. Rooted in hybrid nonfiction forms, media poetics and Slavic mythology, her films investigate the entanglements of identity, memory, and survival. She uses film to excavate counter-histories and create intimate, embodied encounters that activate memory as a force of resistance and connection.

Her most recent short, I Was There (2025), won Best Experimental Film at the New Jersey International Film Festival. Her Plot of Blue Sky (2023) premiered at the 27th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival and received the 2024 BAFTSS Practice Research Award and the Jean Rouch Award at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival. Her films have been shown in over 20 countries and includes screenings at Videoex, BFI London Film Festival, ICA London, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Hawai’i International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Oberhausen, Anthology Film Archives, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, among many others. Her work has been extensively reviewed by a leading documentary film scholar, Dara Waldron in the 10th edition of Found Footage Magazine (October 2024).

She is the founder of Dark Spring Studio, a London-based production company supporting artist moving image work that lives between forms and invites new ways of sensing and inhabiting the world.