Jason Gutzmer is a father, a husband, a traveler, but is best known

as an educator and visual artist. Visual because most of the what he does

you can look at, from a broad range of cinematography for both fiction

and nonfiction, to painting constructions, performance art, public art

installations to digital art and design.  Jason’s enthusiasm for creating

culture, art, and teaching have led him from the Rockies to the Amazon,

where he taught classes and led workshops in diverse realms of art.

    After receiving a BFA in Fine Arts and working in everything from dance to photography, but better known as a painter he left to work as an educator and performance artist in Latin America. In 1996 in Nicaragua he ended up holding a bounce for a documentary film and he was hooked.  There in Latin America he began working in documentary films which after seven years led him back to academia to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts in Digital Cinema in Media Arts.  In addition to working on many films as director of photography and producing much of his own work including a feature length nonfiction movie shot in 2006 in Brazil  he also enjoys teaching courses at the University of Montana in Missoula in Experimental Documentary, Video Production, Digital Editing, and Digital Art and Design.

Jason’s credo… “get out of the box!”