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Stacey Steers

Born January 1, 1954 · Denver, Colorado, USA (age 72)

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, lyrical narratives. In these projects she investigates the nature of longing, and explores the ways desire provokes and mediates experience to create meaning.

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Night Hunter

Night Hunter · 2011

MovieAnimationDrama

In this handmade film, composed of more than four thousand collages, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and plunged into a new and haunting role. NIGHT HUNTER evokes a disquieting dreamscape, drawn from allegory, myth, and archetype.

Sweetgrass

Sweetgrass · 2009

MovieDocumentary

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

Edge of Alchemy

Edge of Alchemy · 2017

Edge of Alchemy

Edge of Alchemy is the third film in a trilogy examining the psychological terrain of women's inner worlds. In this handmade film, assembled from over 6,000 collages, the actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are lifted from their early silent features and cast into a surreal epic with an unending of the Frankenstein story and contemporary undercurrents of hive collapse.

The Stars Watch From Long Ago

The Stars Watch From Long Ago · 2026

The Stars Watch From Long Ago

An experimental animation, this film is constructed from thousands of intricate paper collages. They are fabricated using archival images from early silent films and other sources that explore personal relationships, science fiction, the natural world, and cinematic language, along with fragments of 18th and 19th century engravings and illustrations.

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Night Hunter

Night Hunter · 2011

MovieAnimationDrama

In this handmade film, composed of more than four thousand collages, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and plunged into a new and haunting role. NIGHT HUNTER evokes a disquieting dreamscape, drawn from allegory, myth, and archetype.

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Sweetgrass

Sweetgrass · 2009

MovieDocumentary

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

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Edge of Alchemy

Edge of Alchemy · 2017

Edge of Alchemy

Edge of Alchemy is the third film in a trilogy examining the psychological terrain of women's inner worlds. In this handmade film, assembled from over 6,000 collages, the actors Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor are lifted from their early silent features and cast into a surreal epic with an unending of the Frankenstein story and contemporary undercurrents of hive collapse.

Director

The Stars Watch From Long Ago

The Stars Watch From Long Ago · 2026

The Stars Watch From Long Ago

An experimental animation, this film is constructed from thousands of intricate paper collages. They are fabricated using archival images from early silent films and other sources that explore personal relationships, science fiction, the natural world, and cinematic language, along with fragments of 18th and 19th century engravings and illustrations.

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