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Animation in the House
The award-winning work of Colorado-based fi lmmaker Stacey Steers
comprises thousands of handmade paper cuttings, collages and individually
painted drawings. It can take Steers years to create the artwork seen in her
animated fi lms, which average about eight individual images per second of
animation. And now, in an even more painstaking and detail-oriented feat of
artistry, Steers has created an installation piece to highlight her dark, surreal
2011 fl ick, Night Hunter.
Night Hunter is a provocative, weird and beautiful piece of animated
cinema that is aesthetically similar to Salvador Dali’s famous Un Chien
Andalou, though not as disturbing. Silent fi lm star Lillian Gish is appropriated
and pulled through a series of dreamlike events that drip with cryptic imagery
— corn stalks growing from dresser drawers, plates of writhing earthworms,
blood, moths, zero dialogue — Steer’s installation does her fi lm justice.
The “Night Hunter House” is a creepy-looking, Victorian-style dollhouse with
ten separate rooms. Each little room is furnished, and contains objects related
to Steers’ eerie and bizarre movie — things like bird eggs and moth specimens
accompany tiny TV screens broadcasting clips from Night Hunter. The fi lm in
its entirety will also be shown in the new Artist Project Space gallery at the
Schnitzer, which is where the Night Hunter House can be experienced.
This exhibit will run through June 19, at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of
Art; $5, $3 senior, 18 and under FREE. — Dante Zuñiga-West
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Hong Kong, 2000. Silver gelatin print, 18 x 18 inches.
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Elizabeth Keith (American, 1887–1956). Japanese Carpenter,
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Stacey Steers (American, born 1954).
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