Kelly Gallagher – In-Person – 2025
Monday, April 7, 7:15 PM
Kelly Gallagher is a filmmaker, animator, and Associate Professor of Film at Syracuse University. She is the recipient of a 2024 Creative Capital award for her forthcoming feature documentary, By All Your Memories. Her handcrafted films and commissioned animations have screened at venues including: the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and the Smithsonian Institution. Recent commissioned animations have screened on Netflix and PBS. She’s presented solo programs of her work at institutions including: SFMOMA, Close-Up Cinema London, and Wexner Center for the Arts. Kelly enthusiastically organizes and facilitates fun and inclusive film workshops and camps for communities of all ages, from Kentucky to California, from New York to Iowa and beyond.
Screening works:
In the Future 2021, 3 min
Knowing that another world is possible, individuals young and old share their hopes and dreams for the future.
From Ally to Accomplice 2015, 18 min
“To-day at last we know: John Brown was right.” -W.E.B. Du Bois. This film is an experimental essay in three movements that explores the importance of being more than an “ally” in struggle, by sharing histories of committed accomplices John Brown, Marilyn Buck, and others. The film also delves into the history of the landscape and former prairie that was the earth on which Brown’s militants trained. In the face of exploitation of people and destruction of land, radical struggle cultivates new life.
More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters 2016, 7 min
An experimental animated documentary exploring the powerful and inspiring life of revolutionary Lucy Parsons.
Slower 2018, 7 min
A found footage personal essay film that explores the power of a woman who values her own pleasure.
My Gossip 2018, 15 min
Incorporating live-action stop-motion and digital animation, this personal documentary colorfully explores the radical importance of women’s close friendships by examining the filmmaker’s relationship with her own best friend, and how women’s close friendships were historically weaponized against them.
Photographs From My Father 2014, 14 min
An animated and found footage personal essay film, exploring the relationship between my Father and Uncle, amid old photographs and sports stories. A preservation of memories and example of self care through art production.
Ceallaigh at Kilmainham 2013, 7 min
A 16mm collaged and handcrafted exploration of land, roots, and the strength of the women who came before me.
We Had Each Other 2021, 15 min
Sisterhood and solidarity nourished the thirty-two Irish Republican women POWs at Armagh Gaol (Jail) in 1980, as they embarked on a transgressive, challenging, and oft-overlooked No-Wash protest against British Colonialism.