Lori Felker is a filmmaker, teacher, programmer, and performer. Her films study the ineloquent, frustrating, and chaotic qualities of human interaction and have explored empathy, discontinuity, grief, and multiple dimensions. She eschews any particular style or genre in favor of letting content and concerns guide form.
She loves every facet of filmmaking and has worked as a cinematographer, editor, and/or actor for various artists and directors and has programmed for the likes of the Chicago Underground Film Festival and Slamdance and was a projectionist at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Her award-winning short films and one feature documentary have screened internationally (Slamdance in Park City, Palm Springs International ShortFest, New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Germany, Festival du nouveau cinema in Montreal) and she is the recipient of various grants and fellowships including a Fulbright, a Creative Capital Award and a Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Residency. She lives in Chicago and is an Associate Professor at DePaul University.
Her first fiction feature Patient is in post-production.
SELECTED PRESS AND INTERVIEWS
Patient featured on PBS Wisconsin, Director’s Cut: The Wisconsin Film Festival, April 1st, 2024
Press Release. “Wide Open Experimental Film Festival: Highlights.” Oklahoma City Free Press, March 2024.
Sippell, Margeaux. “A Fishmonger’s Sex Pact, a Psychopath, and Too Much Cologne Highlight NFMLA’s InFocus: Middle Eastern & Arab Cinema Program” MovieMaker Magazine, March 2024.
Marlow, Jonathan. “Hammer to Nail’s Best Films of 2023.” Hammer to Nail, December 2023.
Bessa, Susana. “69th Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Moving Image’s Communal Body.” Millennium Film Journal, October 2023.
Eastham, Ben. “69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.” e-flux, May 2023.
Johnson, CJ. “A Tour Through Oberhausen’s Programs in the 69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.” FIPRECSCI: The international federation of film critics, April 2023.
Wesselkämper, Hannes. “Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2023: Die Antwort der Anachronismen.” Critic.de, May 6, 2023.
Woods, M. Episode 11 of …Like Clockwork (a Podcast of Chicago Filmmakers), May 2023
Baxter, Peter. “How do I get into Slamdance?” Filmmaker Magazine, April 2023.
Schubert, Brianna. “Film Fest Finds: ‘The Milwaukee Show I’: Three highlights from the grab-bag of short films”, Milwaukee Magazine, April 28, 2023
Lori Felker Visit Anchors Week of Mostly Women-Centered Films, Cornell Cinema, October 2022
Two Short Films by Lori Felker Criterion Channel, September 2022
Reiser, Ben. “Lori Felker: Spontaneous and Not You.” Cinematalk Podcast, April 2021.
Fiorino, Mattia. “I can’t by Lori Felker.” Il Tempo Impresso, October 2020.
Stojiljković, Marko. “Review: Spontaneous (2020).” Ubiquarian, October 2020.
Author Unknown. “Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris.”Cinesinfin, October 2020.
Zheleznikov, Mikhail. “Message to Man.” Seance, October 2020.
Delgado, Monica. “Festival des Cinémas Différents 2020: Shorts from Lori Felker, Juha Van Ingen, Juana
Robles, and Moira Tierney.” desistfilm, October 2020.
Obsatz, Kevin, host. ”Lori Felker.” Cellular Cinema Podcast, episode 7, July 2020.
Sachs, Kat. “Lori Felker: Intrusions and Interruptions.” Cine-file, February 2020.
Samarov, Dmitry. “Future Language: The Dimensions of VON LMO.” Aquarium Drunkard, May 2019
Pride, Ray. “Alien Tongue: Lori Felker Finds Future Language on the Road to Von LMO.” NewCity, May 2019
Segal, Dave. “Future Language Documents the Unbelievable Life of No-Wave Space Cadet Von LMO.” The Stranger, Seattle, February 2019.
Audley, Kentucker, Founder & Programmer. “Discontinuity: 5 Questions with Lori Felker.” No Budge, April 2019,
McEachern, Ricky, host. “Gesamtkunstwerk: Interview with Lori Felker.”Eager to Know Podcast, September 2019.
Sachs, Kat, host. “Interview about Future Language.” Cine-cast Podcast, June 2018
Cooke, Juli. “Lori Felker” FEMEXFILMARCHIVE, June 2016
Lee, Kevin B, host. “Playing Cinema with Lori Felker.” Fandor Keyframe Blog moved to Vimeo, June 2014.