Film director Laura Margulies: biography, career, and where

The Comet And What Alissa Thought She Saw

Laura Margulies

A dance film shot inside the medieval walls of the Cloisters in Manhattan. It shows a young woman who becomes aware of the cosmic forces, forces which inhabit her.

The Comet And What Alissa Thought She Saw

1989

Since Our Status Changed... (I'm Alone But At Least I'm Not Being Kicked In The Face)

Laura Margulies

SINCE OUR STATUS CHANGED ... chronicles a breakup. The film mixes animated oil painting with shot footage. Charles Frayne Prize Winner, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best Animated Feature, 1993.

Since Our Status Changed... (I'm Alone But At Least I'm Not Being Kicked In The Face)

1992

HEPA!

Laura Margulies

Hepa! ' translates the haunting rhythm of Afro-Brazilian percussion into images, combining live performance images and hand-painted animations. The film explores Afro-Brazilian dance through these colorful animations, made from paintings on glass filmed frame by frame.

HEPA!

1998

Rose Married A Junky

Laura Margulies

Combining painted, drawn, and fluid imagery with shot footage, ROSE MARRIED A JUNKY is an odyssey through a woman's thoughts about herself, intellectual flirtatious people, desperate eyed people, and the story of romantic love imagined by his grandmother. Winner of the Charles Samu Prize, 1992.

Rose Married A Junky

1990