Brett Kashmere is a filmmaker, curator, and Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA.
Kashmere has created programs for the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, La Cinematheque quebecoise in Montreal, New York's Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Light Cone in Paris, Cinematheque Ontario and Vtape in Toronto, the Seoul Film Festival, Portland's Cinema Project, and the D.U.M.B.O. Arts Festival in Brooklyn. In 2004 he organized the touring expanded cinema installation and DVD-format catalog, Industry: Recent works by Richard Kerr.
Kashmere's films and videos have screened internationally at the London Film Festival, Made in Video: International Video Art Festival in Copenhagen, Anthology Film Archives in New York, the Kassel Documentary Festival in Germany, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, the British Film Institute, and The Images Festival in Toronto.
His writing has appeared in journals and magazines such as The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Take One, ESSE arts + opinions, Synoptique, Senses of Cinema, PROTEE revue internationale de theories et de pratiques semiotiques, and Offscreen, and anthologies like The Films of Jack Chambers, Centre des arts actuels Skol 2002-2003, The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film, and the forthcoming volumes Live Cinema: A Contemporary Reader (edited by Thomas Beard) and A Microcinema Primer: A Brief History of Small Cinemas (edited by Andrea Grover and Ed Halter).
Kashmere was a founding director of the antechamber art gallery & cinematheque, a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of emerging independent artists and filmmakers, and Syracuse Experimental, a film and media workshop. He is also the founding editor of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics.
Kashmere holds an BA in Film & Video Studies from the University of Regina, as well as an MA in Film Studies and an MFA in
Studio Arts from Concordia University in Montreal.