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Phantom Canyon

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.


Stacey Steers lives in Boulder, Colorado where she teaches for the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado. Her labor-intensive films are composed of thousands of individual, handmade works on paper. Her animations have screened worldwide and won national and international awards. She has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Harvard University and Sacatar Foundation.

Last updated 09/05/2007.