Lilli carre biography

Lilli Carré (born in 1983) is an artist and an illustrator, a cartoonist and a film-maker from Los Angeles and currently living in Chicago.

She primarily works in the forms of experimental animation, comics, and print. Her animated films have shown in festivals throughout the US and abroad (her film « How She Slept at Night » was screened at the 2007 Sundance Film festival), and she is the co-founder of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation.
Her books of comics are The Lagoon (an excerpt was chosen to be included in The Best American Comics 2010), Nine Ways to Disappear, Tales of Woodsman Pete, and Heads or Tails. Her work has appeared in The Believer Magazine, the New Yorker, The New York Times, Best American Comics and Best American Nonrequired Reading.

http://lillicarre.com

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• « The Fir Tree », It Books – HarperCollins, 2009.
•  « The Lagoon », Fantagraphics books, 2008
• (french version : « The Lagoon », Cambourakis, 2010).
•  « Nine Ways to Disappear », Little Otsu, 2009.
• « Tales of Woodsman Pete », Top Shelf Comics, 200
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  Lilli Carré

  By: Adam McGovern
  August 18, 2014

  LILLI CARRÉ (born 1983) makes cartoons both still and moving, but in her world, everything is animated — expectant stormdrains awaiting our dropped treasure and serpentine vines engulfing our emotional enclosures and keepsakes enchanted with our attachment and running off with our memories. Every misfit toy and the misfit girls and boys who outgrew them is sheltered in Carré’s stories, whose figures bob and swing like marionettes and whose settings shift like kaleidoscope tesserae. Secret superpowers and missed miracles — midnight liaisons with princely frog creatures, girls who can ride the wind home from noncommittal date to uneventful town and job. It’s the make-believe that we keep living in, just more hidden than ever before, and Carré’s elegant, eccentric vision reconciles melancholy and whimsy without these opposites ever having to be resolved, comforting our lifelong loss while delighting our sense of immortal possibility. This is the album of the unfilled pages we confide to and the unseen worlds she can make pi

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  MCA Screen: Lilli Carré, Cycles & Marks

  About

  Artist, Lilli Carré, whose work is featured in the current BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works exhibition, presents a screening of her own films and others that she has selected.

  Films screening include:

  • Various loop cycles by Lilli Carré
  • Pout Melody (Lilli Carré, 2014, 3.5 min.)
  • How She Slept at Night (Lilli Carré, 2006, 3 min.)
  • Like a Lantern (Lilli Carré, 2012, 5 min.)
  • Crux Film (Alexander Stewart & Lilli Carré, 2013, 5 min.)
  • Blinkity Blank (Norman McLaren, 1955, 5 min.)
  • Tango (Zbigniew Rybcynski, 1981, 8 min.)
  • 69 (Robert Breer, 1968, 4.5 min.)
  • Day of the Nose (Atsushi Wada, 2005, 9.5 min)
  • The Ordovicians (Jim Trainor and Lisa Barcy, 2004, 5 min.)
  • Betty Boop: Snow White (Fleischer Studios, 1933, 7 min.)
  • Lightweight (Stefan Gruber, 1999, 2 min.)

  Furniture Poetry (Paul Bush, 1999, 5 min.)

  Total run time: approximately 68 minutes

  About the Artist

  Lilli Carré was born in 1983 in Los Angeles and currently lives and works in Chicago. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Insti