Kelly Gallagher
Birth : 1987-01-13, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
History
Kelly Gallagher is an experimental filmmaker and animator interested in the radical possibilities of animation and essayistic filmmaking. Her films and research explore the power of animation in visualizing stories of resistance. Her films have screened internationally at venues including: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, London ICA Artists’ Biennial, Traverse City Film Festival, Alternative Film/Video Festival Belgrade, and New York's Anthology Film Archives. She is the recipient of the Helen Hill Award from Indie Grits and the Audience Award from Brazil's Fronteira Film Festival. Kelly resides in Ohio where she’s Assistant Professor of Media Arts at Antioch College.
Director
A group of powerful, bold, Irish women political prisoners at Armagh Jail shook Ireland to its’ core in 1980 when they began a transgressive “no-wash” protest, refusing to bathe for a year to bring attention to their plight and the abusive mistreatment of Irish political prisoners by the British government.
Director
A short experimental documentary about the site of a former stop on the Underground Railroad, the erasure of history, and what we owe those who came and struggled before us.
Director
Knowing that another world is possible, individuals young and old share their hopes and dreams for the future.
Thanks
At the end of 2020 I drove from Denver, Colorado to Philadelphia, PA with my father Ben. As we drove east, tracing a path that reversed the historical trajectory of westward expansion, we spoke about decolonization, climate change, and what we imagined might be next for our world.
Director
A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the zeitgeist in their own backyard, the artists' short films are the culmination of a year-long residency project.
Director
A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.
Co-Producer
Tyler Rake, a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market, embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord.
Editor
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.
Director
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.
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Abolish ICE.
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An experimental essay film illustrating the importance of consent and exploring sexual agency, love, pleasure, mutual desire, violence, and vengeance.
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A colorful experimental animated documentary exploring the powerful and inspiring life of revolutionary Lucy Parsons.
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"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.
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Queen Mother Moore speaking at Greenhaven Federal Prison, 1973.
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'Pen Up the Pigs' is a handcrafted collage animation that explores connections between slavery and present day institutionalized racism and mass incarceration. Through chromatic animated histories and futures of radical collective power, the strength of left revolutionary thought and action found in every frame embeds in the viewer visual understandings of the imperative resistance required to combat racism.
Writer
A 16mm collaged and handcrafted personal essay short film that serves as an exploration of land, roots, and the struggle and strength of the persevering women who came before me. This filmic essay exploration is set against the backdrop of Ireland's radical history.
Director
A 16mm collaged and handcrafted personal essay short film that serves as an exploration of land, roots, and the struggle and strength of the persevering women who came before me. This filmic essay exploration is set against the backdrop of Ireland's radical history.
Director
By painting frames of 16mm clear leader, the filmmaker explores the feelings and sentiments evoked when returning home to Pennsylvania, after being far away for far too long.
Animation
An eccentric, animated documentary on the 'herstory' of some of motion picture's greatest (and often overlooked) contributors.
Art Direction
An eccentric, animated documentary on the 'herstory' of some of motion picture's greatest (and often overlooked) contributors.
Production Design
An eccentric, animated documentary on the 'herstory' of some of motion picture's greatest (and often overlooked) contributors.
Editor
An eccentric, animated documentary on the 'herstory' of some of motion picture's greatest (and often overlooked) contributors.
Cinematography
An eccentric, animated documentary on the 'herstory' of some of motion picture's greatest (and often overlooked) contributors.
Director
An eccentric, animated documentary on the 'herstory' of some of motion picture's greatest (and often overlooked) contributors.
