← Projects dreamscapes (2025) https://rachelgray.art/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Dreamscapes-Trailer.mp4 Experimental Short Film Directed by Rachel Gray Ottawa, Canada | 2025 • 13mins • English (ASL) Ghost Rooster Collective CBC Arts Article | What are ‘always-mares’? Dreamscapes is a genre-blurring experimental film exploring mental health, alternate realities, and the complexities of healing. Rooted in an intimate interview with Amelia Rose […]
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← Projects Insect Worlds https://youtu.be/2kpRY11_jqY This project explores insect perception and the intricate connections between humans and the world of insects. This project is rooted in the recognition of insects as the predominant life forms on Earth, constituting up to 90% of all animal species. Through the mediums of painting, sound, and costume/performance, “Insect Worlds”
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← Projects Raccoon Opera https://rachelgray.art/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Raccoon-Opera-trailer_intro_1.mp4 Raccoon Opera: A fable of the housing crisis Raccoon Opera is a 45 minute absurdist chamber opera that explores Canada’s housing crisis through the lens of an intimate and exploitative relationship between a tenant and a raccoon. Created by composer Rebecca Gray and librettist/visual artist Rachel Gray, this absurd dark
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← Projects Stone Skin https://rachelgray.art/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Stone-Skin-Trailer-.mp4 A woman learns how to become stone and journeys through the memory of the earth. As she moves through time, history, and other buried things, she is drawn towards a final, irreversible choice. Unreleased, Ongoing 2023-2026 Written and Directed by Rachel Gray Cinematographer Pixie Cram Editor Matthieu Hallé Set
← Projects Into the Light Video still from Into the Light. I created hand-drawn, digital 2D animations for a short video called Into the Light. It was made in collaboration with dancer Jessie Huggett, and co-investigators Dr. Carla Rice and Dr. Evadne Kelly. Funded through eCampus Ontario, Ontario Ministry of Education, Learning Enhancement Fund (LEF), University
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← Projects Ghost Rooster Collective https://vimeo.com/746641313 Rachel Gray is a founding member of Ghost Rooster, a disability arts collective centering creative approaches to access at the intersection of dance and film. Ghost Rooster consists of artists and dancers: Rachel Gray, Jessie Huggett, Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson, Elizabeth Winkellaar and Amelia Griffin.
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← Projects Witch Woman https://rachelgray.art/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Witch-Woman-Faces-excerpt.mp4 The stop-motion animation film, Witch Woman, is loosely based on the Witch Hunts of the 17th century, and integrates actors with 2D and object animation. Directed by Pixie Cram with Art Direction and 2D Animation by Rachel Gray. It premiered at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) September 2022.
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← Projects Jess (Opera) https://youtube.com/watch?v=6amAhvVdIuk&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE Featuring the compositional and performance work of Rebecca Gray, Jess adapts a graphic novel exploring the impact of stroke and disability, and the restorative power of friendship and imagination. _ Graphic novel, videography, and editing by Rachel Gray Composition and performance by Rebecca Gray Produced by Rebecca Hass Created as a part
← Projects Artist Connect Report https://vimeo.com/561008877 Artist Connect was a series of online events that brought together 6 communities of artists with disabilities. The video report, created by Rachel Gray, is an overview of what happened and what we learned during Artist Connect. Rachel Gray – Producer, 2D animator, narrator, scriptwriter, video editor
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← Projects JESS – Graphic Novel This is an excerpt from my graphic novel Jess about my relationship with my childhood friend during a time when she experienced brain surgery and stroke.
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