Biography
Josh Weissbach is an experimental filmmaker. His films have been shown worldwide in such venues as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Light Field, European Media Art Festival, 25 FPS Festival, Courtisane Festival, First Look at Museum of the Moving Image, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Festival dei Popoli, and Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris. He has won jury prizes at Montreal Underground, Videoex, ICDOCS, Onion City, Ithaca Experimental, Infinito Super 8, Denver Underground, and Art of Brooklyn Film Festival. He is the recipient of a 2021 Artistic Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, a 2020 Moving Image Fund Early Development Grant from the LEF Foundation, a 2018 LightPress Grant from the Interbay Cinema Society, a 2015 LEF Fellowship from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, a 2013 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Emerging Artists from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and a 2008 Cary Grant Film Award from the Princess Grace Foundation-USA. A selection of Josh's films are in distribution at Light Cone in Paris, France.
Press
“All the Winners of the ‘Infinito Super 8’ Festival 2024,” escribiendocine
Silvia García Palacios, “Short Film Tasting,” Fundido a Negro
Emanuela Nizzari, “ ‘Eighteen Mill Street’: Memories from a Land of Sorrow,” TAXIDRIVERS
Cine-List, “31st Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival,” Cine-File
Stefano Miraglia, “Las Películas de 2023,” Cine Sin Fin
Stefano Miraglia, “World Poll 2023 - Part 6,” Senses of Cinema
Kirk S. Fernwood, “BRFF 2020 Documentary Short Film Review ‘To All Those’,” One Film Fan
Joe Nolan, “Defy Film Festival Brings Experimental Cinema Back to East Nashville,” Nashville Scene
Carmela Baranowska, “Slamdance 2019 – 601 Revir Drive,” We Are Moving Stories
Allison Palnske, “ON SCREEN from Labocine: Model Fifty-One Fifty-Six,” SciArt Magazine
Nikola Gocić, “The Unforeseen IFF (November16-17, 2018),” NGBOOART
Michael Pattison, “Notebook’s 10th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2017,” Mubi Notebook
Francesco Cazzin and Francesca Rusalen, “601 Revir Drive,” L’emergere del Possible
Michael Pattison, “SHOW AND TELL,” Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
Francesco Cazzin and Francesca Rusalen, “38 River Road,” L’emergere del Possible
Francesco Cazzin and Francesca Rusalen, “106 River Road,” L’emergere del Possible
Jacqueline Valencia, “On the 2016 The 8 Fest Part One,” these girls on film
Nicholas Frank, “Milwaukeeists: 1996 - 2006 Or: What Made Milwaukee Famous,” Milwaukee Record
Mary Louise Schumacher, “Big ideas at play in Nohl Show,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mike Everleth, “Short Experimental Film: 106 River Road,” Underground Film Journal
Jami Ganz, “The Experiment Succeeds at Transient Visions,” Pipe Dream
Kat Kneevers, “Nohl Fellowship Exhibition: Innovation at INOVA,” Express Milwaukee
Minou Norouzi, “The Value of Disorientation,” Institute of Visual Arts
Jesse Malmed, “A Geography of Addresses,” The Nightingale
Mike Everleth, “Filmmaker Josh Weissbach and Giblet,” Underground Film Journal
Mary Louise Schumacher, “2013 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship Winners,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Jason Madanjian, “Experimenting with Celluloid,” The Berkeley Beacon
Ryan Findley, “Expanded Cinema,” Urban Milwaukee Dial
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/joshweissbach
Contact: joshweissbach@gmail.com