Gerald Habarth is an artist and animator currently serving as Associate Professor of Art at West Virginia University where he heads the Electronic Media program in the School of Art and Design. He holds an MFA degree from the University of South Florida and a BFA degree from Parsons School of Design. His works have screened at numerous national and international venues and festivals including the Tampa Museum of Art, the Huntington Museum of Art, the Festival Les Instants Vidéo and the Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media. In 2010 he founded the West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival. In 2009 he founded the program Space: Atacama, an adventure art course that takes students to the northern Atacama desert region of Chile to create works that focus on perception and experience through multi-media art.
Recent Screenings & Exhibits
2025
Ornica Film Festival. Carrara, Italy. (Upcoming Sept. 5)
14th Kyiv International Short Film Festival / 60 Films in 60 Minutes. Kyiv, Ukraine. (Upcoming Sept. 4–10)
3rd Annual Music Art Film Craft Fest. Green Bay, WI. (Upcoming July 26)
Strangloscope 15: A Boat Between the Eyes. Casa de Cultura Dide Brandão. Itajaí, Brazil.
2024
17 Days Video Series, Group invitational exhibition. Western Michigan U. and Alfred State College.
60 Seconds or Less Video Festival. Chestertown, MD.
Minute Madness Toronto. Toronto, Canada.
Hallucinea Film Festival. 15th Edition.
West Virginia Short Film Collection, WVIFF. Charleston, WV.
2023
Mobile Animation Film Festival. Mobile, AL.
Encuentro para Cinéfagos: XIII Festival de Cine-Arte en la Frontera. San Cristóbal. Venezuela.
Mtn Craft Film Festival. Clarksburg, WV.
KinoDrome: International Motion Picture & Screenplay Festival. Cleveland, Ohio.
2023 Bogotá Experimental Film Festival. Bogota, Columbia.
MicoActs 15, Artist Short Film Screenings. London, UK.
Unspooled Film and Animation Festival. Menomonie, WI.
Vacations in the Subconscious 1924-2023. Alphabet Art Centre Cologne (Online).
Inheritance: The Environmental Festival. Public TV broadcast in N. Ireland and the UK
Ephemerality Juried Exhibition. Strata Gallery. Santa Fe, NM
FECIMU Festival International de Cine y Multimedia. Beunos Aires, Argentina
21ST Asheville Fringe Arts Festival. Grail Moviehouse. Asheville, NC
18TH Athens Animfest (online). Experimental 2 Program
2022
POST Pan: Works by WVU School of Art and Design Faculty. Morgantown, WV
Video Art Projects. Municipal Art Gallery Casa Bianca, Thessaloniki, Greece
2021
Braziers International Film Festival. Oxfordshire, UK
Manifestations. Alphabet Art Center (Online)
GECO 2021 - G Eco Film Festival. (Online)
VAF 2020, Muestra de Video Arte Faenza. Bogota, Columbia
2020
First Friday Film Festival, Kansas, Missouri (Online)
Video Art Miden, Post Quarantine II (Online)
CONNECT 2020 International Video art Festival, Tampa FL
11TH UNCG International Sustainability Short Film Competition, Greensboro, NC
33 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2019
CODEC International Experimental Film and Video Festival. Mexico City, Mexico.
Geofilmfestival. Cittadella, Italy
4th Independent Film Tour MX. Monterrey, Mexico
Experimental Superstars 2019. Novi Sad, Serbia
IX Encuentro Para Cinéfagos. San Cristóbal, Venezuela
Berlin Flash Film Festival. Stuttgart, Germany
Seattle's > Open Screening, Seattle Film Institute. Seattle, WA
Hradby Samoty. Moravany nad Váhom Castle. Moravany nad Váhom, Slovakia
2018
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival. Istanbul, Turkey
The Golden Record, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art. Athens, GA.
31st Festival Les Instants Vidéo. 2018. Marseilles, France
2018 Kinodrome Festival. Cleveland, Ohio
Experimental Film Guanajuato. Plaza Los Ángeles, Guanajuato, Mexico
Retransmisión: 3er Muestra de Cine y Video Independiente. Various cities, Mexico
The South Film and Arts Academy Festival. Rancagua, Chile
Fest Anča International Animation Festival. Žilina, Slovakia
That One Film Festival. Muncie, Indiana