Film, Video and New Media Faculty



Lisa Barcy, Adjunct Assistant Professor FVNM
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About:

Lisa Barcy is an award winning animator, and maker of puppets and other three-dimensional oddities. She has made puppets for various theater companies and contributed animation to multi-media performances by the dance company, The Seldoms. Her work for Redmoon Theater has been seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and the Viaduct Theater. In spring of 2005 her puppets were seen traipsing across the stage and stabbing each other in the critically acclaimed Redmoon production of The Cabinet, based on the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. She also teaches animation at Columbia College.

Films include The Guilt Trip - or the Vaticans Take a Holiday, The Ordovicians (made with Jim Trainor), Woman Without a Past, and Mermaid.

Screenings:

The Gene Siskel Film Center, The Black Maria Film Festival, Slamdance, Rooftop Films, Big Muddy Film Festival, The Chicago Underground, The New York Underground, CinemaTexas, the Lower West Side Film Festival, MadCat Women’s Film Festival, 20,000 Leagues Under the Industry Film Fest, The Ohio Independent Film Festival, Women in the Director’s Chair, The Henson Festival of International Puppetry, The Winterroot Festival of
Puppetry, and The Directors Forum in Berlin.