RADICAL ACTS OF CARE: ACT VI

Kelly Gallagher

August 27 – September 27, 2020

From Ally to Accomplice

Kelly Gallagher | USA | digital | 18 min | 2015  A loving evocation of the actions of militant abolitionist John Brown and revolutionary fighter Marilyn Buck. Kelly Gallagher’s analytical essay film is an achievement in engaged cinema, with a polemical title that is ever relevant. How much do you care, and how far are you willing to go to act on it? The drive to do the right thing, the distance in passage from ally to accomplice is a function of ethics that Gallagher measures in this and the entirety of her artistic project. — Greg de Cuir Jr.    All artwork & materials courtesy of the artist. 

Kelly Gallagher

Kelly Gallagher is a filmmaker and animator. She is Assistant Professor of Film at Syracuse University. Her award-winning films and commissioned animation projects have screened internationally at venues including The Museum of Modern Art (New York), National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), Sundance Film Festival, the Smithsonian, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Sheffield Doc Fest. She has presented solo shows of her work at UnionDocs (NYC), Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus), and Sight Unseen (Baltimore), among many others. Gallagher enthusiastically organizes and facilitates film workshops, camps, and master classes for communities and groups of all ages.