BIO:
Alee Peoples maintains a varied artistic practice that involves screen-printing, sewing, sculpture and film. Currently living in Los Angeles, she has taught youth classes at Echo Park Film Center and shown her sculpture and film work at GAIT, 4th Wall and elephant. Peoples has shown her films at numerous festivals including Edinburgh, Images (Toronto) and New York Film Festival, and at museums and spaces including SFMoMA, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Pompidou Center, Dirt Palace (Providence) and The Nightingale (Chicago). Started in 2022, Arroyo Seco Cine Club is a thematically programmed film series she co-curates with Mike Stoltz. She is inspired by pedestrian histories, pop song lyrics and invested in the hand-made.
some press:
Optical Track on DubLab - Interview by Paolo Dovanzo about Peoples’ 2014 LA AIR residency at Echo Park Film Center and her Untitled (double 8mm) film.
L’Emergere Del Possibile - reviews Standing Forward Full, in Italian.
Podcast: The Unpossessable Possessor. European Media Arts Festival 2021 - Alee Peoples & Mike Stoltz.
episode 82 of The People - Alee Peoples & Cara Levine.
Hidden Gems - Max Goldberg picked Decoy as a favorite of the 2018 San Francisco International Film Festival.
an interview with Clint Enns for INCITE Journal's Back and Forth. August 2017
Fandor Keyframe - Michael Sicinski & Jordan Cronk's 2016 end of the year list for avant garde film.
Reverse Shot - Genevieve Yue's take on the 2015 Projections at the 53rd New York Film Festival.
The Art Blog review of May 2011 show at Vox Populi, Philadelphia. Scroll down.
Max Goldberg's review of ATA screening in San Francisco, October 2011.