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    Phantom Canyon

    Stacey Steers 2006 USA Animation b/w 10min N/A 35 mm
    A curious woman meets an alluring man with bat wings in this personal recollection of a pivotal journey. This animated film was created from over 4000 hand-made collages incorporating the figures from Eadweard Muybridge’s Human and Animal Locomotion, first published in 1887.

    Director

    Stacey Steers

    Stacey Steers is known for her process-driven, labor-intensive animated films composed of thousands of handmade works on paper. Her recent work employs images appropriated from early cinematic sources, from which she constructs original, experimental narratives. Steers' animated short films have screened widely throughout the U.S. and abroad, and have received numerous awards. Her films have been included in the Sundance FF, Telluride FF, New Directors New Films (New York), Rotterdam IFF, Locarno IFF and screened at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), and MoMA.

    Stacey Steers

    2006 Phantom Canyon 

    1999 Totem

    1990 Watunna

    1988 The Black Sheep 

    Director & Screenplay: Stacey Steers

    Cinematographer: Victor Jendras

    Sound: Bruce Odland

    stacey.steers@colorado.edu

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