Elliat Graney-Saucke is a multi-media artist, events organizer and cultural worker. She thematically connects her work to cultural activism through a queer and female lens and through utilizing collaboration and community to highlight art as social change.

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Starting video production at age 14 and has created a body of over 12 short films that have screened through out Europe and North America. In March 2009 her first feature film Travel Queeries premiered internationally at the British Film Institute with the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and is currently touring internationally and is being translated into over 10 different languages. Her next film, Boys on the Inside (BOI), is a documentary about masculine ‘boy’ identity in US women’s prisons. BOI screened a rough cut at the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in October 2009 and is supported by 4Culture grant (US).
As a culture work, Graney-Saucke has been an organizer for such festivals as the first ever Lady Fest (’00) and Homo-a-gogo (’02)- Olympia, WA. She is founder of The Bend-It Extravaganza, Seattle’s first Queer Youth Led Arts Festival (’03-current). Recently she acted as site coordinator for the National Performance Network’s Annual Meeting in Seattle, December 2008. She has worked extensively with the Pat Graney Company, coordinating guest artist residencies, prison arts programing and assisting with video documentation and production (Keeping the Faith). In Berlin she is currently one of the lead organizers of the Berlin Femme Mafia (a group creating visibility for feminine gender expression in the queer scene).
Graney-Saucke has been the recipient of multiple community and arts awards including: 4Culture Individual Artists Projects, Pride Foundation Scholarship and Project Grant, Seattle Mayors Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs Youth Arts Grant, GSBA Scholarship, and Art for Social Change Award (MPowerment).
In addition to film, Elliat performs as Sir La Muse, productions of bio drag queen performance art that has toured extensively in Europe. She is currently doing research through Goddard College on ‘organizational structures in the arts internationally.’
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Filmography

Blue Tuesday (and the broken riddles) – 2010
Director/Producer (Co-written with Katie Jaques)
Short film of dorthy-esk girl on adventures in altered realities, trying to break the riddle.
Berlin, Germany

Boys on the Inside – 2010
Director/Producer
Documentary film on ‘boy’ identity in US women’s prisons
Seattle, WA; Berlin/Bremen, Germany

Travel Queeries – 2009
Director/Producer
Feature Length, Documentary about radical queer scene in Europe
UK, Germany, Poland, Spain, Italy, Serbia, Denmark, (Canada); US/Seattle

Travel Queeries: Queeruption, Barcelona – 2005
Director/ Editor/Director of Photography
Short film, Documentary about International radical queer gathering
Barcelona, Spain; US/Seattle

Grinding Gears – 2005
Co-Director/Editor
Short film, Erotic queer story of bike gang
Seattle, WA

Instructional Portuguese Gay Dance Video - 2003
Co-Director/Editor
Short Film, Instructional language video with queer centric lens
Seattle, WA

Mustache – 2003
Director
Short Film, Expressions around being female with facial hair
Seattle, WA

Under Water/Memory of Her/It’s not Funny – 2002
Director/Editor
Short Films, Trio exploring sibling relationships with monologue and animation
Houston, TX

Eyeballs – 2001
Director/Animator
Short Film, Animated Music Video for The Space Ballerinas (YoYo Records)
Olympia, WA

Shoes– 1998
Co-Director/Editor
Short film about people’s shoes (on the street shoe shot interviews).
Olympia, WA
8th Grade Year Book Video– 1998
Co-Director/Editor
Short Documentary/Video Memoir of Jefferson MS graduating class.
Olympia, WA

see attached:
1) picture of Elliat Graney-Saucke
2) still from film 'Travel Queeries'
3) 'Travel Queeries' postcard image
4) 'Boys on the Inside' logo
5) Elliat Graney-Saucke posting for portrait as drag persona 'Sir La Muse' painting by Minette Drier