HAPPY & GAY
Currently in production, start date May 2004, est finish date October 2007
(11:00, b + w, sound, video/digital distribution)

This is a completely original revisionist history animation film done to authentically replicate the animation studio style of the 1930's b + w cartoon musical. The term "revisionist history" comes from the goal to create a reasoned historical placement and recognition of gays and lesbians as part of cinematic and social history, with leading roles and positive characters. The American social landscape at this time was frought with dissatisfying depictions of the "Other," whether that be gays or any another minority....

To learn more about "Happy & Gay"...

GRACE
1998 (6.15, color, sound, 16mm)

"In Grace, Lorelei Pepi weaves a dark, dense tapestry of elemental images which serve to bathe and enfold her photographed female forms caught in quiet moments of revery, ecstasy and death. Clearly belonging in the incantory realm of Maya Deren, yet owing much to the layering techniques of Pat O'Neill, Grace draws one into a kind of mute collusion..." George Griffin, animation filmmaker

To learn more about the film "Grace"....     or see an online version at atomfilms.com

Dem Bones Wiggle
2005 (1:00, color, sound, /video / digital distribution)

This was a pixillation project completed within the context of Harvard University's Visual and Environmental Studies program. My Fundamentals of Animation sudents are the dancing skeletons.

Ether
in development

This film project is centered around the concept of the psyche's two sides, male and female, and what happens when they are caused to split.

Tico Tico
2003 (0:45, color, sound, /video / digital distribution)

This was a bumper that I created for the animation screenings held at the end of a season at school. It's stop-motion puppet animation of a dancing worm by way of Carmen Miranda.

Swing Shift
2003 (0:30, b+w, sound, /video / digital distribution)

This was a bumper that I created for the animation screenings held at the end of a season at school. I did it as an early test of some ideas for "Happy & Gay." The animation is more limited than H & G.