Marcie LaCerte
Directing
Biography
Marcie LaCerte is a mixed Chinese-American animator, director, and illustrator based in Minneapolis. She is represented by Jacky Winter Studio and adjuncts at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design where she teaches illustration and animation. Her films have screened at Ottawa International Animation Festival, GLAS Animation, and AFI Docs, and she has worked on documentaries acquired by The New Yorker and The Guardian. The Pleasure-Dome is her latest short film. Marcie’s work is irreverent, darkly comic, and character-driven. She is interested in psychological and atmospheric narratives, and her films and illustrations follow alienated figures traversing surreal, gothic landscapes. She merges traditional and digital techniques in her process, using a stop motion-inspired collage approach to create densely-layered compositions influenced by puppetry and theatrical staging. In her free time, she likes playing piano, watching Survivor, listening to podcasts, and looking at vintage clothes on eBay.
Known For
For the last quarter century, Houston native Arden Eversmeyer journeyed across the country to record hundreds of oral "herstories" with a mostly invisible population that is rapidly disappearing. Old Lesbians honors Arden's legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, from first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out, and finally from loss to connection.
Old Lesbians
A batch of mushy sourdough. Two radioactive lizards. Three cans of Campbell’s tomato soup. When COVID-19 lockdowns began in 2020, people around the world began reporting more vivid dreams.
Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup
The marshmallow test became the poster child for the idea that there are specific personality traits that are stable and consistent. And this drives Walter Mischel crazy. "That iconic story is upside-down wrong," Mischel says, "That your future is in a marshmallow. Because it isn't."
The Marshmallow Test
An artist moves to an island to focus on her work. Quickly, she becomes obsessed with one of her projects.
The Pleasure-Dome
A girl goes out in the summertime looking for love.