Michael Gray

Professor
Film
(360) 596-5516
mgray@spscc.edu
Office Hours: I will not be holding regular office hours during my 2025-26 sabbatical, however, please feel free to contact me.
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For the 2025-26 year, I am on sabbatical (details are provided below). During the summer of 2025 (July & August), I will be at the college on Wednesdays, working in our Equipment Room. Normally, I am here 10 AM to 3 PM on those days.

Feature Project: Mannequin

Writer-Director | Supported by 2025–26 Sabbatical

A young woman wakes up transformed inside an abandoned mall. Through recursive movement, fractured sound, and memory collapse, she begins to rewrite her identity.

Mannequin is a feature film currently in development. Part horror story, part sonic fugue, the project explores the edges of authorship, loss, and nonlinear time.

Highlights:

  • Sound-driven narrative with recursive structure
  • Built on prior research into nonlinear narrative and memory structure
  • Original analog synth + field recordings
  • Shot in Olympia, WA
  • Full-year academic sabbatical (Fall 2025–Spring 2026)

Michael Gray is an educator and filmmaker who currently teaches film at South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia, Washington. He has created video for businesses, non-profits and artists, developed multiple web series, hosted and facilitated podcasts, directed numerous short films, and produced music videos. As an advisor, he has consulted with organizations about how they can effectively strategize their own goals and missions through creative and exciting uses of media and current technologies. He also works as an audio technician, providing many of these same projects with mixes, sound design, and even musical composition.

As an educator, Gray has taught a wide array of courses including: film production,16mm film production, screenwriting, film studies, film history, TV studies, mass communication, special topic classes on writers in Hollywood and Roger Corman, as well as American literature.

In addition to teaching at South Puget Sound Community College, he has also taught at North Hennepin Community College, Ohio University, Georgian Court University, and University of Essex.  

Gray holds an MFA in filmmaking from Ohio University as well as a Ph.D. in American literature from University of Essex (UK).

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

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