PROGRAM THREE: Kelly Gallagher

Part of No Time to Rest! Film Series

Past event: streamed from December 2–8, 2020

Herstory of the Female Filmmaker
Kelly Gallagher, 2009, 12 min.
digital video, color, sound

Ceallaigh at Kilmainham
Kelly Gallagher, 2013, 7 min.
digital video, color, sound

Do You Want to Go for a Ride?
Kelly Gallagher, 2013, 5 min.
digital video, color, sound

More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters
Kelly Gallagher, 2016, 6 min.
digital video, color, sound
 
A selection of films by experimental animator, activist, and educator Kelly Gallagher. In Herstory of the Female Filmmaker, Gallagher creates a candy-colored ‘zine-style grrrl power reclamation of the “herstory” of cinema history. Her fast-paced stop-motion collage offers an eccentric chronology of lesser-known cinema history, and features overlooked, forgotten, and often excluded women contributors including trailblazers such as Alice Guy Blaché, Maya Daren, and Julie Dash, among others. Ceallaigh at Kilmainham, a deeply personal piece Gallagher made with her mother, is a meditation on land, roots, and the strength of women who came before as they reflect on history, ancestry, and motherhood. In her essay film Do You Want to Go for a Ride? Gallagher illustrates the importance of seeking consent in sexual encounters while exploring sexual agency, love, pleasure, mutual desire, violence, and vengeance. More Dangerous Than a Thousand Rioters documents the powerful and inspiring life of American labor organizer, orator, and radical anarchist revolutionary Lucy Parsons.

All videos screen courtesy of the artist and Purple Riot Studios.