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Kelly Gallagher
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
Kelly Gallagher is an experimental filmmaker, animator, and Associate Professor of Film at Syracuse University. She makes colorful cut-out animations, experimental films, document…
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Kelly Gallagher is an experimental filmmaker, animator, and Associate Professor of Film at Syracuse University. She makes colorful cut-out animations, experimental films, documentaries, and found footage essays that explore political histories of resistance and personal stories of resilience. She has received support for her work from Creative Capital, New York State Council on the Arts, the Wexner, Doc Society, LEF Moving Image Fund, Oscilloscope Films, and Orphans Film Symposium's Helen Hill Award. 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 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Her commissioned animations have screened on Netflix, Criterion Channel, and PBS. She’s presented solo programs of her work at institutions including: SFMOMA, Close-Up Cinema London, Balkanima European Animation Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Wide Open Experimental Film Festival, and MUTA Audiovisual Appropriation International Festival, among others. Her films are distributed by Canyon Cinema. Kelly enthusiastically organizes and facilitates fun and inclusive film workshops and camps for communities of all ages, every time she gets the chance.
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2026
Dance Film
Movie Director
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2025
The Inquisitor
Movie Animation
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2024
Let It Be a Tale
Movie Thanks
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2023
The Blues Society
Movie Animation
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2023
Out of Frame
Movie Thanks
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2022
Body Parts
Movie Animation
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2022
Thine Own Self
Movie Thanks
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2022
A Spot for Frog
Movie Thanks
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2022
We Had Each Other
Movie Director
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2021
Pine and Genesee
Movie Director
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2021
In the Future
Movie Director
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2021
Worn Stories
TV show Animation
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2021
Ben & Fred, October 2020
Movie Thanks
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2020
Cinetracts '20
Movie Director
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2020
CINEMA-19
Movie Director
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2020
Extraction
Movie Co-Producer
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2019
Words from a Bear
Movie Animation
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2018
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable
Movie Animation
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2018
My Gossip
Movie Director
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2018
51 seconds on the 4th of july
Movie Director
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2016
Do You Want to Go for a Drive?
Movie Director
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2016
More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters
Movie Director
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2015
From Ally To Accomplice
Movie Director
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2014
Pearl Pistols
Movie Director
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2014
Pen Up the Pigs
Movie Director
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2013
Ceallaigh at Kilmainham
Movie Writer
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2012
Pennsylvania
Movie Director
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2010
The Herstory of the Female Filmmaker
Movie Animation
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1986
American Masters
TV show Animation
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Slower
Movie Director
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No Siren Left Behind
Movie Animation
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Retracing Our Steps
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