Kelly Sears
- Associate Professor
- Director of the Brakhage Center
Kelly Sears is an experimental filmmaker, animator, and educator whose work explores the intersections of history, memory, science fiction, and documentary. Through collage, animation, archival reconfiguration, and hybrid forms of storytelling, she creates films that reimagine cultural histories and speculate on possible futures. Her films inhabit a space where the familiar and the fantastic converge
Her films have screened internationally at festivals including Sundance, Slamdance, South by Southwest, the American Film Institute Festival, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam, as well as museums such as MoMA, the Hammer Museum, and the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Solo programs of her work have been presented at the Pacific Film Archive, Anthology Film Archives, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the San Francisco Cinematheque. Her films have received awards from at Slamdance, Ann Arbor, Black Maria, Chicago Underground, and Oak Cliff Film Festivals.
Sears also serves as Director of the Brakhage Center for Media Arts.