Stacey Steers

A curious woman meets an alluring man with bat wings in this personal recollection of a pivotal journey. This 10 minute 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. Source : Stacey Stears Vimeo

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.

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.

A diverse compilation of short animations from NYC's popular festival, Animation Block Party.

Unfolding like a dream, TOTEM explores our evolving relationship to the animal world. Music and sound by Bruce Odland.

Aspen Film Festival, honorable mention Student Academy Awards, finalist Leipzig International Film Festival Denver International Film Festival Colorado Film Network

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.

Tbilisi Silk is a lyrical short film that explores the city of Tbilisi, the tradition of silk making in Georgia, the life cycle of the silk worm, and the restoration of the 19th century in Tbilisi State Silk Museum. The film freely explores these themes, alluding to their intersections and parallels. Tbilisi Silk incorporates archival footage from the National Film Archive in Tbilisi, and images from books found in the Silk Museum collection. In a metamorphosis similar to the silk worms, the museum is re-emerging restored to its former 19th century stature. This film is a collaboration between Stacey Steers and John Romano. Georgian title designed by Mariam Natroshvili.

The creation myths of the Yekuana Indians of the Orinoco region of Venezuela provide a transparent look at the poetic process by which human beings construct meaning from their experience. Narrated by Stan Brakhage. Music and sound by Bruce Odland.

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.