Directing · b. 1941 · Los Angeles, CA

Joan C. Gratz

Biography

Joan Carol Gratz is an American artist, animator, and filmmaker who specializes in clay painting. Gratz is best known for her 1992 Oscar-winning animated short film Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase.

Directed

Retention Department of Permanent Exhaustion 2022 No Leaders, Please 2021 The One-Minute Memoir 2020 Lost and Found 2014 Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet 2014 The Dowager's Idyll 2001 The Dowager's Feast 1996 Pro and Con 1993 Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase 1992 Candyjam 1988

Acting

History, Mystery & Oyssey: Six Portland Animators Herself 2023 Animation Outlaws Self 2019

Other Credits

The Festival of Claymation Animation 1987 The Adventures of Mark Twain Set Designer 1985 The Creation Animation 1981 The Little Prince Background Designer 1979

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