FILMOGRAPHY / PROJECTS
2015 – current Docile Bodies, mixed-media interactive animation installation
Examining the human relationship to the virtual 3D digital female body found in online markets
2014 Happy & Gay animated film, 10.12 minutes, 2D Digital, stereo, black and white; 16:9
A revisionist history 1930’s cartoon about homophobia and stereotype.
2012 Mt. Oberlins Apology, online digital text and image
Enact: Art in the Mind online exhibition, conceptual art performance proposal
2005 Dem Bones Wiggle animated film, 1.0 minutes, digital, colour, mono, 4:3
Animated human bodies in skeleton costumes dance to Tiny Parham’s song, Washboard Wiggle (1932)
2003 Fortune Teller Mixed-media installation
A circus tent holds a fortune-telling experience for the viewer.
Mixed media installation; animated media, display screen, tent, soft sculpture, printed material
1998 Grace animated experimental film, 06.5 minutes, 16mm film, colour, mono, 4:3
The transformations of balance and imbalance between flesh and soul.
DISTRIBUTION
Peccadillo Pictures www.peccapics.com United Kingdom
OutPlay Films www.outplayfilms.com France
OUTtv Media www.out.tv/be/ The Netherlands
REVIEWS, Happy & Gay
2018 Keep it in Motion – Classic Animation Revisited: ‘Grace’, Animation World Network Magazine, Chris Robinson
2018 I Have A Question: Lorelei Pepi Animation World Network, by Chris Robinson
2017 Happy My Way, Animating Diversity, by Glenn Sheehan, Mincho Magazine
2017 Cartoon Misadventures With a Gay Twist, by Gareth Johnson, Gay Star News
2017 ‘Cuphead’ Why 1930s Animation Continues to Grip Contemporary Culture, Rolling Stone Mag, by Jacob Kleinman
2017 Eye for Film Review of “Happy & Gay,” by Jennie Kermode, Eye for Film
2017 The Lesbian Short Film Collection is Back, by Tim Isaac, Big Gay Picture Show
2016 Animated Shorts at LGBT Film Festival Focus on Acceptance, by Ross Reagan, Indy Star
2014 Happy and Gay at the Animation Festival, by Julie Cruikshank, Daily Xtra
REVIEWS, Grace
2014 The Animation Pimp: The Kids Are Eating It Up, By Chris Robinson, Animation World Network
2001 Animation World Network; June 26; Those Who Shall Be: The New Faces Under the Animation Sun” by Chris Robinson
2001 Fresh From the Festivals, select film reviews, by Dr. Maureen Furniss, Animation World Network online July 20, 2001
2000 Lucky 13, The Thirteenth MIX Festival, by Mark J. Huisman, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, March 2000
2000 From Michigan With Love, Ann Arbour Festival Returns to Foothill College, by Susan Tavernetti, Palo Alto Weekly July 21, 2000
1999 ASIFA Festival Reports, by Amy Kravits, International Association Animation Film Society
1999 Der Duft der grossen weiten Welt in Baden Fantoche, by Hans Jürg Zinsli, Limmattaler Tagblatt, (coverage of my 2nd prize Fantoche Festival award)
VIDEO INTERVIEWS
2015 Vancouver Int’l Women in Film Festival
2017 Cartoon Misadventures With a Gay Twist, Short Film Happy and Gay puts LGBTI characters in the spotlight. Gareth Johnson, Interviewer, Gay Star News, 11-15-2017
2015 Vancouver Int’l Women in Film Festival youtube weblink
2006 Art-Toons: Film Animator and Harvard Professor, Lorelei Pepi, Amanda Axelson, New England Film, 04-05-2006
2005 The Raging debate Over Spongebob’s Sexuality, Diversity and Distinction, Harvard College Press vol 10 number 3, 2005
SCHOLARLY STUDIES
2011 Deseos Desiguales, Igual Deseo: Proceso de Realizacíon de un Cortometraje de Animacíon de Temática Homosexual, by Emilio Martí Lopéz, MFA Thesis, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
2008 The Animation Bible, chp. 13 Digital Visions, case study: Lorelei Pepi; by Maureen Furniss; L King Publishing
2003 “The Feminine Vision of the World: the Alchemical Conjunctio Link and its Way of Expression in Animation” by Susana
Maria Grace Ramos; PhD thesis, Universidad de Espana
COLLECTIONS
Sundance Institute Collections, UCLA
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Canadian National Film Archives, Montreal, Canada
University of California, Los Angeles CA
Evergreen College, Oregon
HAPPY & GAY (2014) FESTIVAL AWARDS
Jury Award for Best Animation: Rio Gay Festival du Cinema, Brazil, 2015
Jury Award for Best Short Film: Les Gai CineMad: Madrid LGBT Film Fest; 2014
Jury Award for Best Animation: Atlanta Out On Film Festival; Atlanta Georgia USA;
2015 Public Award for Best Short: Sardinia Queer Short Film Festival, Sardinia, Italy
Audience Award: Atlanta Out On Film Festival Nov, 2014, Atlanta Georgia USA; 2014
Award for Best Animation: Image+Nation LGBT Cinema Festival, Montreal; 2015
Special Mention, Can[Be] Gay, Festival de Cine LGBTIQ de Canarias; 2015
GRACE (1997) FESTIVAL AWARDS
Grand Prix “Best of Festival,” Student Animation Festival of Ottawa 1999 (SAFO) // Grace
2nd Place, Experimental Film, The World Animation Celebration // Grace
2nd Grand Prize, “High Risk”, Fantoche 1999 Baden, Switzerland // Grace
2nd Place, Experimental Film, The World Animation Celebration // Grace
2nd Prize, Experimental Film, Big Muddy Film Festival, Experimental Shorts // Grace
2nd Place, Exp Film Award, SXSW, Experimental Shorts // Grace
Special Jury Prize , Holland Animation Festival // Grace
Director’s Citation, Black Maria // Grace
Honorable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival // Grace
HAPPY & GAY (2014) SPECIAL PROGRAMMING
Girls go BOOM (nightclub media events), Netherlands, various locations 2018
XIII International “Cortoons” Animation Film Festival, LGBTI screening, Valencia Spain 2017
Centre Evolutif Lilith, Lesbian Filmmakers Series, Marseille France 2017
Bagdam Espace lesbian, Lesbian Springtime Program, Toulouse, France 2017
SESC, social-cultural programming, LGBTQ theme, Oc 4 – 29. An education leader is present daily to facilitate educational dialogue. São Paulo, Brazil 2017
“Women Filmmakers from Cineffable Festival” Centre Evolutif Lilith, Marseilles France 2017
Art + Social Justice Film Series: LGBQIA+ Awareness| Lunder Arts Center 2016
Best of Les Gai Cinemad, at Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Ciudad de Soria, 2016
Queers in Shorts, Cambridge UK 2015
Cine Radicals, Santiago Chile 2015
Asterisco Itinerante, Chile, Embassy Touring Program on LGBT Human Rights 2015
Diversanima, touring Chile and Latin America (various) 2015
“The Kids Are Alright”, Ottawa Animation Festival, Ottawa CAN 2013
“Best Of”, Fantoche Animation Festival, Baden, Switzerland, 2012
“New England Animators” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; curator, Branka Bogdanov, MA 2009
“International Animated Film Festival of Catalonia” ; Animac Festival; Catalonia, Spain 2007
“When Animation Meets the Living”; Wissembourg 2011, Zagreb 2007, Cinematheque Quebecoise 2006, Annecy 2006
“Words In Motion” / Transformation” Ottawa Animation Festival, CAN 2004
“Scratch / Scratching the Sex” Rotterdam Film Festival, 2001
“Roratorio for Paris/Berlin” Independent Exposure, 2001
“Best of MadCat” MadCat USA Tour, 2000
“Next Sex: Sex in the Age of Its Procreative Superfluousness” Ars Electronica / Mix NY, 2000
HAPPY & GAY (2014) SCREENINGS, Official Selection in Competition
Siggraph Asia (Shenzen, China) Nov, 2014 Shenzen China 2014
ANIMATOR / 2015 The 8th International Animated Film Festival, Poland, Poznan 2014
Image+Nation LGBT Cinema Festival, Montreal 2014
InsideOut Toronto 2014
In&Out LGBT Film festival 2014
Bilbao Festival of Documentary & Short Films-ZINEBI, Spain 2014
Festival Int’l Derechos Humanos y Cine Venezuela, Venezula 2014
Merlinka Int’l Queer Film Festival, Belgrade 2014
Diversanima, Film Festival of Sexual Diversity, Santiago Chile 2014 www.diversanima.cl
Anim’Est Int’l Animation Film Festival, Romania 2014
Atlanta Out On Film Festival, USA 2014
Atlantic Film Festival, Nova Scotia 2014
Athens AnimFest, Greece 2014
Boston LGBT Film Festival 2014
Holebi Queer Film Festival, Germany 2014
Can[Be]Gay: Festival Int’l de CineLGBTIQ de Canarias, Canary Islands 2014
La Asociación de Mujeres de Urdaibai Kukubedarra, Spain 2014 kukubedarra.blogspot.com
Frameline39: San Fran Int’l LGBT Film Festival 2015
Asterisco Festival Internacional de Cine de LGBTIQ, Argentina 2015 www.festivalasterisco.gob.ar
Roze FilmDagen, Amsterdam Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Holland 2015
Turin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Italy 2015
Vancouver Int’l Women in Film Festival 2015
Torino LGBT Film Festival, Italy 2015
Women in Film Festival, Florida US 2015
ANIMATE 2015, Poland 2015
Curadoria e Direção do Rio Festival Gay de Cinema 2015
Alice Springs Pride Carnivale Screenings 2015
Festival de Cine de la Diversidad 2015
Homochrom Film Festival, Germany 2015 www.homochrom.de
InDPanda International Film Festival, Hong Kong 2015
El Lugar Sin Limites, Festival Internacional de Cine LGBTI Ecuador 2015 www.elugarsinlimites.net
Feminist and Queer International Film Festival, Romania, Bucharest 2015 http://faqiff.ro
Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival 2015 http://www.reelingfilfmestival.org
ReelQ, Pittsburgh LGBT Film Fest 2015 www.ReelQ.org
Helsinki Short Film Festival, Finland 2015 http://ww.hlef.fi
Sardinia Queer Short Film Festival, Sardinia 2015 www.usnexpo.it/
Florence LGBT Film Festival: VideoQueer 2015, Florence Italy 2015 www.florencequeerfestival.it
Darwin Pride Festival, Australia 2015 www.darwinpride.com.au/
Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Washington USA 2015 www.threedollarbillcinema.org
Vinokino LGBT Film Festival, Finland 2015 www.vinokino.fi/en/home
Fargo-Moorhead LGBT Film Festival, N. Dakota USA 2015 www.fmlgbtff.com/
Chaplin Film Festival, Ireland 2015 chaplinfilmfestival.com
Puerto Rico Queer Filmfest, Puerto Rico USA 2015 www.puertoricoqueerfilmfest.com
2016
Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2016 http://www.mqff.com.au/
Dem Bones Wiggle (2005): SCREENINGS
Festival of Contemporary Animation: New England Animators: Lorelei Pepi, Daniel Sousa, and Nancy Andrews, Rhode Island College, 2009
Balagan New Local Shorts, Coolidge Corner Theatre, 2006
GRACE (1997): SCREENINGS, Official Selection in Competition
Sundance Film Festival, Frontier Shorts Program, Park City, Utah
International Student Animation Festival of Ottawa, Canada
Rotterdam International Film Festival, “Scratching the Sex” Program, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Filmothek Section, Official Competition, Oberhausen, Germany
Annecy 2000, Annecy, France
Holland Animation Festival, Utrecht, Holland
Ottawa 2000 Animation Film Festival, Ottawa, Canada
The World Animation Celebration Los Angeles, CA
Big Muddy Film Festival, Experimental Shorts Competition, IL
South By Southwest / SXSW, Austin, TX
Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI USA
Atlanta Film Festival, GA USA
Göteberg International Film Festival, Goteberg, Germany
Images du Nouveau Monde, Quebec, ON
Images International Film Festival, Toronto, ON
MadCat Womens’ Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2nd Internationales Trickfilm of Weisbaden, Germany
Inside Out; the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival of Toronto, ON
Florida Film Festival, FL
Chicago Underground Film Festival, IL
ImageOut Rochester, NY
Fantoche, Baden, Switzerland
Festival International du Nouveau Cinema et des Nouveaux Medias de Montreal, ON
Anima Mundi, Official Competition, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animation, Leipzig, Germany
MIX NYC, NYC USA
MadCat Women’s Film Festival, San Francisco, CA USA
Los Angeles Outfest, LA CA USA
Cinema Texas International Short Film and Video Festival, TX USA
GRACE (1997): SPECIAL PROGRAMMING selections
Heart in Mind: Mait Laas, DOK Festival, Leipzig Germany 2019
“The Kids Are Alright”, Ottawa Animation Festival, Ottawa CAN 2013
“Best Of”, Fantoche Animation Festival, Baden, Switzerland, 2012
“New England Animators” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; curator, Branka Bogdanov, MA 2009
“International Animated Film Festival of Catalonia” ; Animac Festival; Catalonia, Spain 2007
“Foreign Bodies” Aurora 2007, Possible Worlds Festival; Norwich, England 2007
“International Animated Film Festival of Catalonia” ; Animac Festival; Catalonia, Spain 2007
“When Animation Meets the Living” Experimental Film and Video Festival; Zagreb, Croatia 2007
“Poetry In Motion” Ottawa Animation Film festival; Ottawa, Canada 2007
“When Animation Meets the Living” Cinematheque Quebecoise; Montréal, Canada 2006
“When Animation Meets the Living” Annecy Animation Festival; Annecy, France 2006
“Animation Show” Magic Lantern Cinema, 2005
“Women in Animation” Women in Film and Video- New England, 2005
“Cal Arts Retrospective” American Film Institute, 2004
“Abracadaver: The Corporeal Body” Paperveins Biennial, NY, 2004
“Avant-Garde Shorts” Think Tank-NY, 2004
“LA Animators Pt II” LA Film Forum, 2004
“Words In Motion” / Transformation” Ottawa Animation Festival, 2004
“Scratch / Scratching the Sex” Rotterdam Film Festival, 2001
“La Enana Maron” Independent Exposure, 2000
“Visual Surprise” Balagan, Coolidge Corner Theater, 2001
“Independent Exposure” Balagan, Coolidge Corner Theater, 2001
“Roratorio for Paris/Berlin” Independent Exposure, 2001
“Austin TX Arts Society Fundraiser” 2001
“Best of MadCat” MadCat USA Tour, 2000
“Next Sex: Sex in the Age of Its Procreative Superfluousness” Ars Electronica / Mix NY, 2000
“Best of Ottawa” Canadian Film Institute, 2000
“Best of MixNY” MixNY 2000-2001
“Sizzling Summer Edition” Independent Exposure, 2000
“Experimental Edition” Independent Exposure, 2000
“Best of NextFrame, National Student Film Festival” USA tour, 2000
“Best of Microcinema” International Tour, 1999-2000
EXHIBITIONS
Happy & Gay (2014)
2017 Cabinet of Curiosities and Abilities Exhibition, SESC, Oct 4 – 29, 2017 São Paulo, Brazil.
Curator Daníla Barauna and Thaís Heinisch, SESC Itaquera Cultural Film Programming Office. weblink
2014 Emily Carr Faculty Exhibition, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver BC
2012 New England Animation All-Stars, Beard & Weil Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton MA
2012 Mount Oberlin Apology, Enact-Art in the Mind, online exhibition
Conceptual performance proposal for Oberlin, Ohio residents
Curators, Professors Nanette Yannuzzi, Oberlin College, and Ann Torke, University of Massachusetts Boston
2004 New Faculty Exhibition, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
everythingwillbeokay (2015)
2015 Emily Carr Faculty Exhibition, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver BC
Dem Bones Wiggle (2005)
2012 New England Animation All-Stars, Beard & Weil Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton MA
Grace (1998)
2013 Cinema Ombiglio, peephole cinema; Orange Alley Projects, San Francisco, CA
2011 Crossing Currents: Feminism Now, Hera Gallery, Providence, RI
2011 RISCA Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Westerly, RI
2010 Frame By Frame: Animated at Harvard, Sert Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition co-curated by Professor Ruth Lingford and Terah Maher
2010 Fabulous Viscocity, Queer Art Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2005 Corporeal Landscape, AbraCadaver Exhibition, PaperVeins Art Gallery, NYC, NY
Online and physical space exhibition, curated by Virgil Wong
2003 Constant Companion: Artists’ Sketchbook Exhibition, Gallery R, Rochester, NY