Joan C. Gratz

Directing

Born April 6, 1941 · Los Angeles, CA

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 (11)

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

Night Weaver

Acting (2)

History, Mystery & Oyssey: Six Portland Animators

2023

Animation Outlaws

2019