Lauren Marie Dake is an experimental filmmaker and educator from Seattle, currently residing in Providence, RI. Her practice centers on notions of escape, chaos, the uncanny, and the ethereal. She is fascinated with the world-building potential of handmade and cameraless cinema and experiments with direct animation onto 16mm films, where she engages in an ongoing attempt to create new realities within the dimension of the frame. She is currently learning as much as she can about the Oxberry Animation Stand and the JK Optical Printer so she can be a source of knowledge for her students and peers as she continues to expand her practice.
Lauren’s short films have recently screened at the Antimatter Media Arts Festival in Victoria, BC, the Grrl Haus Cinema Best of 2024 Festival in Cambridge,MA, the MicroActs Artist Film Screenings in London, the International Avant-Garde Film Festival in New York, The Wide Open Experimental Film Festival in Oklahoma, Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival in Cambridge, MA and the Boston Short Film Festival.
Lauren is currently teaching undergraduate film courses at the University of Rhode Island and 7 week workshops at Massachusetts College of Art in Design (Experiments in Handmade Film & Experiments in Digital Video).
***
