After finishing his BFA in Art Video at Syracuse University in 2000, Carl Diehl relocated to San Francisco. Here he programmed screenings at Artists’ Television Access, and performed his own live cinema with the group Century Quartet. After completing his MFA at the University of Oregon in 2007, Diehl relocated to Portland and began teaching at the Northwest Film Center and the Pacific Northwest College of Art. In 2009, he co-founded the live cinema ensemble, Weird Fiction. Over the last fifteen years, Diehl has collaborated with musicians and writers, including Padna, Missing Skull, Randy Mckean, and Joshua James Amberson to design and produce eclectic video accompaniments. Diehl’s independent and collaboratively produced moving image artworks and performances have exhibited widely, at venues including: The International Symposium of Electronic Art, The Schneider Museum, Transmediale, Shapeshifters Cinema, and the Wooden Octopus Skull Experimental Musick Festival . In 2022, Diehl published "Misdirections: A Serio-Comic Catalogue of Details, Detours, & Derivations from the Life of the Magician, Vaudevillian, and Comedy Emcee, Werner “Dorny” Dornfield." He has since adapted "Misdirections" into a live cinema performance lecture, and is working on short documentary iteration.