Melissa McClung is a filmmaker & animator with 10+ years of experience creating impactful & playful visual media in the Commonwealth.
Please watch the three reels below, total runtime 10 minutes: Visual Design & Animation Reel (01:44), Documentation of Solo Exhibition (The Barn Door Gallery, October 2025) (01:00). Scroll down to see my Artist Narrative (02:00) and read more about me, including my 2-page CV. Please follow the link to my main website to see more work & full films.
Visuals from my films & from my personal archives.
Archival footage from The Prelinger Archives at archive.org.
All visuals designed & created by Melissa McClung
Work & credits noted below. Clips not noted are from various music videos, pre-visualizations or upcoming projects, all designed & animated by Melissa McClung.
00:06 drawers, The Arc of Oblivion (visual designer, animator)
00:18 butterfly/outer space/asteroid, All the Marbles (director, producer, animator)
00:30 animal drawers, The Arc of Oblivion
00:35 skull, The Arc of Oblivion
00:38 losing marbles, All the Marbles
01:06 marble exploring, All the Marbles, clips produced with Jared Pearson
01:24 wormy Earth, Video Sketchbook: March - June 2020 (director, producer, animator)
01:33 curious bunny, The Arc of Oblivion
MELISSA McCLUNG is a filmmaker and animator based in Hadley, Ma. Melissa was nominated for 2024 Cinema Eye Honors in Visual Design for her work on the science documentary, The Arc of Oblivion, directed by Ian Cheney and produced by Wicked Delicate & Sandbox Films with Executive Producer Werner Herzog. Melissa has above-the-line credits on films that have premiered at SXSW, CPH:DOX, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Maryland Film Festival, among many others. In her multidisciplinary work, she often finds herself gravitating towards themes of childhood, wonder, women/mothers, and nature, with imaginative retro-scifi motifs. She makes work in New England, solo and with regional collaborators.
In addition to her creative work, Melissa co-owns Ghost Hit Recording Studio in West Springfield with her husband, audio engineer Andrew Oedel. Melissa earned her MFA in Film from Vermont College of Fine Arts and her BA from Vassar College. Melissa is the recipient of Vassar’s 2024 W.K. Rose Fellowship. She has taught in the Department of Art at UMass Amherst, and she is currently a Professor of the Practice in the Film, Media, and Communications Department at Wheaton College in Norton, Ma.
Melissa’s animations are
“casually magical” - Screen Daily
“delightful” -Reel News Daily
Contact: melissa.e.mcclung@gmail.com