Email:
danecree@gmail.com
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About:
Dane Cree is an interdisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis, MN U.S.A.
He has shown his animated short films internationally and continues to explore and create through the lens of animation, illustration and performance art.
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Film Festival Awards:
2023 - Contact Dance International Film Festival, Outstanding Post-production for ‘Swamp Thang’
2022 - London Super Shorts Film Festival, Best Animated Film for ‘Dragon’
2022 - Amsterdam Independent Film Festival, Best Animated Film Award for ‘Dragon’
2021 - Denver Digerati Animation Film Festival, Directors Choice Award for ‘Dragon’ + Breathing Fire Interview
Official Selections for Film Festival Screenings:
2025 - {Re}Happening- Black Mountain College (NC), ‘Message In A Bottle’
2024 - Walker Art Center- 52nd Choreographer’s Evening, ‘Xyl'em & Phlo'em’
2024 - Sound Unseen 25th Annual Film + Music Festival, ‘5 Iron’
2024 - Shock Stock, ‘5 Iron’
2024 - Stick and Bindle at The Dirt Place, ‘Dragon’
2024 - Martinique Film Festival, ‘5 Iron’
2023 - ZTV Film Fest, ‘5 Iron’
2023 - Proxy Act Festival, ‘Bitter Resource’
2023 - North Dakota Environmental Rights Film Festival, ‘Bitter Resource’
2023 - Oskuur Ghent Film Festival, ‘Bitter Resource’
2023 - Shit in the Dirt Film Festival, ‘Bitter Resource’
2023 - REAson d’etre dance Contact Dance International Film Festival, ‘Swamp Thang’
2023 - Dance@30FPS, ‘Swamp Thang’
2023 - Amsterdam Independent Film Festival, ‘Dragon’
2023 - Somerville International Film Festival, ‘Dragon’
2023 - New Jersey Independent Film Festival, ‘Dragon’
2023 - Brussels Independent Film International Festival, ‘Dragon’
2022 - Digital Emergent Media Festival(formerly Super Nova), ‘Swamp Thang’
2022 - TAKT Film Fest, ‘Swamp Thang’
2022 - Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, ‘Swamp Thang’
2022 - Super Shorts Film Festival London, ‘Dragon’
2022 - Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, ‘Dragon’
2022 - Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, ‘Dragon’
2022 - Boxer Shorts Animation Festival, ‘Dragon’
2022 - Moviate Underground Film Festival, ‘Don't Fall’
2022 - INDIE SHORTS AWARDS NEW YORK, ‘Don’t Fall’
2022 - CANNES INDIE SHORTS AWARDS, ‘Don’t Fall’
2022 - Scream Queer - Eros and Thanatos, ‘Power Exchange’
2021 - INQRVENTION, ‘Power Exchange’
2021 - Malt Adult, ‘Dragon’
2021 - Flip the Script Fest, ‘Dragon’
2021 - Supernova Digital Animation Festival, ‘Dragon’
2021 - Overmountain Animation Festival, ‘Dragon’
2021 - The Fine Arts Film Festival, ‘Don't Fall’
2021 - International PSA Competition, ‘Don't Fall’
2021 - FLICKFAIR Film Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2020 - Supernova Digital Animation Festival, ‘Don't Fall’
2020 - ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2019 - Santiago Independent Film Awards, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2019 - Dumbo Film Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2019 - Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2019 - Somerville International Film Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2019 - Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2019 - Brussels Independent Film Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2019 - Sydney World Film Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2018 - Amsterdam Independent Film Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2018 - Wunderground Film Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2018 - London Super Shorts Film Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2018 - Verona International Film Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2018 - Toronto Arthouse Film Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2018 - Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2018 - Open World Animation Festival, ‘A Dog Leashed’
2018 - New Zealand International Film Festival, ‘GOD BLESS AMERICA’
2018 - Melbourne International Film Festival, ‘GOD BLESS AMERICA’
2018 - Altered Esthetics Film Festival, ‘GOD BLESS AMERICA’
2017 - Square Lake Film & Music Festival, ‘GOD BLESS AMERICA’ (FINALIST)
2017 - Bristol Radical Film Festival, ‘GOD BLESS AMERICA’
2017 - Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, ‘18˚N 65˚W’
2017 - Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, ‘Scopophilia’
2016 - Altered Esthetics Film Festival, ‘Scopophilia’
2016 - Ozark Shorts, ‘Make It A Pear’
2016 - Ozark Shorts, ‘All Them Bottles’
2016 - Ozark Shorts, ‘Charlie Parr with Jeff Mitchell at the Cedar Cultural Center’
2015 - Square Lake Film & Music Festival, ‘Charlie Parr with Jeff Mitchell at the Cedar Cultural Center’
2015 - Indie Forum Film Festival, ‘Make It A Pear’
2015 - Altered Esthetics Film Festival, ‘Charlie Parr with Jeff Mitchell at the Cedar Cultural Center’
2015 - Square Lake Film & Music Festival, ‘Make It A Pear’
2015 - Indie Forum Film Festival, ‘Charlie Parr with Jeff Mitchell at the Cedar Cultural Center’
2013 - Square Lake Film and Music Festival, ‘18˚N 65˚W’
2013 - MinnAnimate II (The Ritz Theater), ‘18˚N 65˚W’
Murals and Installations:
2024 - Square Lake Film & Music Festival: Stillwater, MN
Role: Mural Designer and Lead Painter.
2022 - MURF, 5-Iron (music video): Minneapolis, MN
Role: Production Design, Background and Prop Painting
2018 - Square Lake Film & Music Festival: Stillwater, MN
Role: Mural Designer and Solo Painter.
2016 - Square Lake Film & Music Festival: Stillwater, MN
Role: Mural Designer and Lead Painter.
2014 - Square Lake Film & Music Festival: Stillwater, MN
Role: Mural Designer and Solo Painter.
2014 - Schmidt Artist Lofts: St. Paul, MN
Role: Mural Wall Preparer for HOTTEA
2014 - Northern Spark Festival: Minneapolis, MN
Role: Assistant Yarn Installer for HOTTEA
2012 - Square Lake Film & Music Festival: Stillwater, MN
Role: Mural Designer and Lead Painter.
2012 - HOTTEA/MCAD Fence Collaboration Yarn Mural: Minneapolis, MN
Role: Mural Designer, group typographic collaboration
2012 - Savitt Paint: Minneapolis, MN
Role: Lead Designer and Painter. Collaboration with MCAD, Emerson- Spanish Immersion School and Youth Art and Media Works (Y.A.M.)
2012 - Fat Lorenzo's Italian Restaurant: Bloomington, MN
Role: Painting Intern for Ed Charbonneau.
2012 - Henderson Mural Project: Rochester, MN
Role: Painting Intern for Ed Charbonneau.
2012 - Rye Delicatessen: Minneapolis, MN
Role: Assistant Painter for Elissa Cedarleaf-Dahl.
Gallery Exhibitions:
2024 - Walker Art Center- 52nd Choreographer’s Evening, ‘Xyl'em & Phlo'em’
2024 - “Neon Nightmares 3” at Artspace Jackson Flats (Minneapolis, MN) - group exhibition
2024 - “Hellavision Television Network Flea Market” at Tyler Street Stacks (Minneapolis, MN) - group event
2024 - “Drone Not Drones - 9th annual 28 hour drone” at The Cedar Cultural Center (Minneapolis, MN) - solo live drawing performance
2020 - “inVISIBLE” at Circa Gallery in collaboration with UCARE (Minneapolis, MN) - group exhibition
2017 - “The Art of Grief” at Duluth Art Institute (Duluth, MN) - group exhibition
2015 - “Explorers Night” at The Sound Gallery (Minneapolis, MN) - solo exhibition
2013 - “Circle” at the Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory and Educational Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) - group exhibition
2013 - “Senior Show” at MCAD (Minneapolis, MN) - MCAD Graduating class of 2013 group exhibition
2013 - “18˚N 65˚W” at MCAD Gallery 148 (Minneapolis, MN) - animation collaboration & installation
Education:
BFA, Fine Art Studio – Areas of focus: experimental animation and mural painting
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2013
Scholarships:
2012 MCAD, Fine Art Studio Merit Scholarship
2009 - 2013 MCAD, Emerging Leader Scholarship
2009 - 2013 MCAD, Abbey Weed Grey Scholarship
