Current resident of Chicago, IL
2007-present
Main Current Employer is:
School of the Art Institute
of Chicago: FVNM & IRFM
Other Employers are:
Chicago Underground Film Fest
Gene Siskel Film Center
University of Illinois Chicago
The Lords of Freelance
2005-2007
MFA: Film/Video/New Media
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2001-2005
Pittsburgh, PA
2000-2001
Fulbright: Freie Universitat
Film Studies, Berlin, Germany
1996-2000
BA: English, minor German
Indiana University of PA
1978-1996
Bethlehem, PA
Lori Felker
lorifelker gmail (dot) com
Mail:
112 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60603
Details
Lori chose Filmmaking as her official second language in 2003-ish, bumping German into third place. Eventual fluency is important to her, so she employs many forms/formats, practices frequently with others, and tries hard not to shy away from expressing her thoughts on human behavior, travel, inter-activity, frustration, failure and political irritants. Lori has many lives to live simultaneously. They currently live, make films/videos, teach, project, curate, and compulsively collaborate in Chicago.
Currently faculty and staff at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 2007) and the Festival Coordinator for the Chicago Underground Film Festival. Her work has screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival; NYFF: Views from the Avant-Garde; VideoEx, Zurich; Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal; Curtas Vila do Conde Film Festival, Portugal; Wexner Center for the Arts; MassArt Film Society; MuHKA_media, Belgium; Boston Underground Film Festival; Video Fest, Dallas; Florida Experimental Film Festival; Space Gallery, Pittsburgh. She is an Illinois Arts Council Artists Grant recipient, a Wexner Center Artist in Residence, an Experimental Sound Studio Artist in Residence and a Fulbright Fellow (Berlin).