David Bussan, Associate Professor of Cinema, began teaching at the college in 1987 and has served as Chair of the department since 1998.  He teaches a range of production courses in 16mm film and digital video.  He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema from Denison University.

Bussan’s portfolio of creative film includes works in documentary, memoir, narrative, and experimental films. He has recently completed a short documentary entitled Future Visions of Over the Rhine, which explores the economic revival and gentrification of this poverty-stricken downtown Cincinnati neighborhood.  His current work-in-progress is Art Bomb!, a documentary concerning Ohio artist Charles Van Ness and his uniquely stylized sculptures.