Collection Playlist: Quasi at the Quackadero & Pearl Pistols

Sally Cruikshank is a US animator known for her offbeat surrealistic and psychedelic cartoons. Cruikshank studied filmmaking and animation at the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1985, she won the Maya Deren award for independent film and video artists given by the American Film Institute. Cruikshank’s 35mm animation films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and her cult-hit, Quasi at the Quackadero, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Kelly Gallagher is an experimental filmmaker and assistant professor of film at Syracuse University. Her work investigates the radical and feminist possibilities of experimental animation. Gallagher’s award-winning animations, experimental films, and documentaries have screened internationally at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, Sundance Film Festival, the Smithsonian Institution, London ICA Artists’ Biennial, LA Film Forum, and Anthology Film Archives. She is founder of Purple Riot Studio, a film and animation production house.

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