aleepeoples@gmail.com

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). She is inspired by pedestrian histories, pop song lyrics and invested in the hand-made.

EDUCATION

2010 Rhode Island School of Design

Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture

2007 School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Fiber and Materials

2004 Columbia College Chicago

Bachelor of Fine Arts

AWARDS - GRANTS

2024 Juror Award for Hey Sweet Pea - ICDOCs

Best Portrayal of Erasure Award for Hey Sweet Pea -

MUFF

German Film Critics Association Award for

Hey Sweet Pea - EMAF

2019 800ft. Peoples Pleaser Award for Decoy –

MUFF

Light Press Grant via Interbay Cinema Society

2015 Juror Award for Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies -

MUFF

Juror Citation for Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies - ICDocs

Juror Award for Waxing and Milking - FLEX Fest

2014 Third Prize, Directors' Choice Award for Them

Oracles - Black Maria Film Fest

2013 First Prize for Them Oracles - MUFF

Juror Citation for The Root That Ate Roger Williams

- ICDocs

2010 Honorable Mention for Boys of Summer -

MUFF

2008 Jacques & Natasha Gelman Graduate

Fellowship

2006 Department of Cultural Affairs & Illinois

Council of the Arts: Community Arts Assistance

Program Grant

2005 Department of Cultural Affairs & Illinois

Council of the Arts: Community Arts Assistance

Program Grant

RESIDENCIES - PROGRAMS

2019 Chulitna Lodge, Lake Clark, Alaska

2015 ACRE, Steuben, WI in collaboration with Mike

Stoltz

2014 LA AIR, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles

Institute for Labor Generosity Workers and

Uniforms, Long Beach, CA with Danielle McCullough

2010 Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY

2008 Gruber Foundation, Yucatan Mexico

2007 Fabric Workshop and Museum Apprentice

Program, Philadelphia PA

2005 Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams MA

FILM SCREENINGS

2025

University Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Block Cinema, Northwestern University, Chicago

Off Center, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago

San Diego Underground Film Fest

2024

Blonde Cobra, Köln

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

Engauge Film Festival, Seattle

Gravitational Lensing, Shapeshifters Cinema,

Oakland

solo screening at Anthology, NY

Binghamton University Cinema Department, NY

Cornell University Cinema, NY

Alternative Cinema, Colgate University, NY

Crossroads, San Francisco

Peripheries Film & Video Festival, Chicago

solo screening at Los Angeles Film Forum

Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Canada

ICDOCs, Iowa City

European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

Athens International Film & Video Festival, Ohio

Experiments In Cinema, Albuquerque

Artists Film Workshop w/ Ross Meckfessel,

Melbourne

Cosmic Rays, Chapel Hill, NC

First Look at Museum of Moving Image, NY

Berwick Film & Media Arts, UK

Para by Para w/ Jeremy Kennedy, Human Resources

2023

Crossroads At 14, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,

San Francisco

Alee Peoples at Visions, Montreal

Arroyo Seco Cine Club - Nu Norms

MicroLights: Walking Towards Shore, Greenbush

Growing Coop, WI

Stray With the Body at Woodbine, Queens, NY

Alee Peoples at Roxie Theater, San Francisco

2022

Light Field Los Angeles at 2220 Arts & Archives

Lunch Poems, curated by Jesse Malmed at

Nightingale Cinema, Chicago

Light Matter at Alfred Summer Fest

Arroyo Seco Cine Club - DEEP END

Arroyo Seco Cine Club - Pattern, Rhythm, Rock

Arroyo Seco Cine Club - Get Rich Quick!

aemi tour: The Model, Sligo, Ireland

aemi tour: VISUAL, Carlow, Ireland

aemi tour: WORM, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

aemi tour: Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam

aemi tour: Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford,

Ireland

aemi tour: Pálás Cinema, Galway, Ireland

2021

Videodrome2, Marseille

Light Material, Alfred, NY

Cork International Film Festival, Ireland

Athens International Film + Video Festival, OH

Epsilon Spires, Brattleboro VT

A Concrete Cloud - Nightingale Cinema at Hyde Park

Art Center

First Look Festival - Museum of Moving Image, NY

Get In Bitches - Nightingale Cinema at Hyde Park Art

Center

Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (online)

Iowa City Documentary Film Festival - Juror

Screening (online)

European Media Arts Festival - Osnabrück (online)

2020

Cámara Lúcida - Quito (online)

Fracto Film Festival - Berlin (online)

Alee Peoples & Karissa Hahn - Microscope Gallery,

NY (online)

European Media Arts Festival - Osnabrück (online)

San Francisco International Film Festival (online)

Ann Arbor Film Festival - Ann Arbor, MI (online)

Onion City - Chicago (online)

Zumzeig Cine Co-op with Amy Halpern - Barcelona

Cosmic Rays - Chapel Hill

New Works Salon - Echo Park Film Center

Los Angeles Mix Tape - L’etna, Paris

2019

Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle

European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrüeck

Light Field, San Francisco

USC Cinematheque 108, Los Angeles

Frenkel Defects, Ontario

Artists Film Workshop w/ Mike Stoltz, Melbourne

2018

Recover In the Ether - Microlights, Milwaukee

Ski Club via High Desert Test Sites - Yucca Valley

Spotlights On A Brick Wall - LaborBerlin, Berlin

Spotlights On A Brick Wall - WORM, Rotterdam

Spotlights On A Brick Wall - Cavia, Amsterdam

Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies - Iris Film Collective,

Vancouver

Fire Freeway & Flood - West Coast touring program

Fronteras Destruidas, Lima Independiente Festival

Edinburgh International Film Festival

Crossroads, San Francisco

Acid Free Los Angeles, Art Book Fair at Blum & Poe

Iowa City Documentary Film Festival

Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Journal

release screening

Athens International Film & Video Festival

IV Frontieira International Documentary &

Experimental Film Festival, Brazil

San Francisco International Film Festival

Onion City, Chicago

New Works Salon, Echo Park Film Center

2017

Festival International del Nuevo Cine

Latinoamericana, Havana

Light Field, San Francisco

Bridgeport Art Trial, Bridgeport, CT

Back To The Future: Project!, Rotterdam

She Makes Noise, La Casa Encendida, Madrid

San Diego Underground Film Fest

Supernormal via BEEF, Oxfordshire, UK

End of the World Garden, Cornwall, UK

Nonplussed Film Fest, Los Angeles

Winnipeg Underground Film Festival-solo screening

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

Iowa City Documentary Film & Video Festival

Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque

Kiev International Short Film Festival, Ukraine

Athens International Film Festival, Athens OH

Big Ears Festival, Knoxville

Plastik Festival, Dublin

$100 Film Festival, Calgary

Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Australia

Cave Festival, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2016

Light Field, San Francisco

Festival of Different & Experimental Cinema, Paris

Grand Union First Friday, Birmingham UK

New Works Salon, Echo Park Film Center

Segueing, Character Projects, Los Angeles

Projections, 54th New York Film Festival

Queer City Cinema, Regina, Canada

Gold Hill/Boulder

Iris Collective, Vancouver

Fields Festival, Baltimore

Unexposed Microcinema, Durham

Oracles, Light Movement, Berlin

Nonplussed Fest, Non Plus Ultra, Los Angeles

Institute for Labor Generosity Workers and

Uniforms, Long Beach, CA

Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan

Shobi University, Saitama, Japan

Future Projections, MOOG Fest, Durham, NC

New Works Salon, Echo Park Film Center

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival – Juror

Screening, Milwaukee

Salon, Women's Center for Creative Work, Los

Angeles

Feminism & Co., Museum of Contemporary Art,

Denver

Films from the Echo Park Film Center, ATA, San

Francisco

The 8 Fest, SPK Polish Combatants Hall, Toronto

2015

Echo Park Film Center Marathon, Los Angeles

Rick Bahto & Alee Peoples, RedCat, Los Angeles

MIX NYC, New York

AntiMatter Media Art Festival, Victoria, Canada

Projections, 53rd New York Film Festival

Hit That Long Lunar Note, People's Liberty, Cincinnati

LAX >>> YWG, Open City Cinema, Winnipeg, Canada

New Works Salon, Echo Park Film Center

WUFF, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Backup Fest, Weimer, Germany

Queer City Cinema Film Festival, Regina, Canada

Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - Juror Award

for Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies

Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque

Images, Toronto

ICDOCS, Iowa City - Honorable Mention for Non-

Stop Beautiful Ladies

FLEX, Gainesville, FL - Juror Award for Waxing and

Milking

Espacio Labruc, Madrid, Spain

Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain

The 8 Fest, SPK Polish Combatants Hall, Toronto

Frames from the Golden State, NDSM Treehouse,

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Frames from the Golden State, Sign Gallery,

Groningen Netherlands

2014

Sommerfilme, Kurz & Knapp, 8 cities, Switzerland

Black Maria Film & Video Festival, New Jersey City &

traveling program

And The Beat Goes On, Gallery 400, Chicago

Images Film Festival, Toronto

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

Burning Bungalows Film Tour, 13 cities across

Southern US

High Concept Laboratories at Mana Contemporary,

Chicago

LA AIR (Artist In Residence) screening, Echo Park

Film Center, Los Angeles

Alee Peoples & Mike Stoltz, Mono No Aware,

Brooklyn

Alee Peoples & Mike Stoltz, AS220, Providence

MIX NYC, 27th Queer Experimental Film Festival,

New York

Waiting For The Big One, Regional Support Network

at VideoFag, Toronto

Comfort Station, Chicago

2013

New Works Salon Marathon, Echo Park Film Center

Cinematheque 108, USC, Los Angeles

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival - First Place,

Them Oracles

Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, Albuquerque

Iowa City Documentary Fest - Juror Citation, The

Root That Ate Roger Williams

Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco

Chicago Underground Film Festival

Alee Peoples and Janis Crystal Lipzin, Echo Park

Film Center, Los Angeles

Blasts From The Past: Best of Milwaukee

Underground Film Festival

2012

New Works Salon, Echo Park Film Center

Alee Peoples Films solo screening, Nightingale

Cinema, Chicago

Yankee Clutter, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles

Yankee Clutter, Black Hole, Oakland

Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, Albuquerque

2011

Shadowbox Cinema III, Museum of Contemporary

Art Detroit

The Ones That Got Away Part II: CUFF Salonathon,

Chicago

Radical Adults Lick God Head Style, Artists

Television Access, San Francisco

Crossroads Festival, San Francisco

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

2010

Milwaukee Underground Film Festival -

Honorable Mention, Boys of Summer

Brooklyn Museum of Art

Rutgers University Film Co-Op Super 8 Festival

Creole Cabaret, Dirt Palace

2009

Watch Yourself, Show Me What You Got -

Providence RI

AS220 - Providence RI

2008

Light Industry, Curator Sabrina Gschwandtner -

Brooklyn NY

2007

Boris Karloft, Chicago IL