PURPLE RIOT STUDIO
Film + Animation by Experimental Filmmaker Kelly Gallagher
PURPLE RIOT STUDIO
Film + Animation by Experimental Filmmaker Kelly Gallagher
About Purple Riot Studio & Kelly Gallagher
Hello!
Welcome to Purple Riot Studio, the film and animation production house of award-winning artist Kelly Gallagher. Kelly has been producing original and colorful handcrafted films and animations spanning the past fifteen years delving into overlooked histories and movements of resistance against colonialism, white supremacy, imperialism and patriarchy. She also creates commissioned animations for activist media, documentary filmmakers, and music video clients ranging from The W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition, to Planned Parenthood, to Hurray for the Riff Raff, and more.
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.
Personal work (in chronological order)
