Special Screenings – 2025

Kelly Gallagher – In-Person
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.

Dani Wasserman – In Person
Tuesday, April 8, 7:00 PM

Dani Wasserman is an artist and filmmaker based in Pittsburgh, PA, originally from Athens, OH. After spending the first 24 years of their life in Athens, Dani graduated from Ohio University in 2021 with a degree in Media Arts, building a portfolio of short films and video works. They then moved to Boulder, Colorado, to pursue an MFA in Film at the University of Colorado, Boulder, which they completed in 2024.

Dani’s work has been showcased at festivals across the United States and Europe, including Film Diary NYC in New York, SQIFF in Scotland, and many times here at AIFVF. Endlessly enthralled with the scattered blasts of light that dance across our retinas, Dani makes films about feelings, bodies, queerness, memories, and sometimes baseball.

Lilli Carré – In-Person
Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 PM

Lilli Carré is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Recent works focus on perceived misbehaviors, bodily communication, and the grotesque. Her animated films have shown in festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, 25FPS, Annecy, Rotterdam, New Chitose Animation Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the European Media Arts Festival. She is the co-curator of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, founded in 2010 and held annually in Chicago, LA, and NYC. She has published several graphic novels with Fantagraphics and others and exhibited in galleries internationally. She is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow and currently teaches in the Experimental Animation program at CalArts.