Stacey SteersThe Stars Watch from Long Ago

Handmade paper collages and related objects from Steers’s new animated film, in which a tiny farmhouse carries silent-film stars through space.

Steers’s films are built from thousands of small paper collages, with figures taken from printed silent-movie frames and scenery from nineteenth-century engravings; one second of film takes eight collages. The North Gallery shows the originals behind her newest film, a collaboration with the artist John Romano, who edited it.

In the film a farmhouse drifts through space with Lillian Gish aboard, later joined by Janet Gaynor and Ana Torrent, while wildfire, a threat in Steers’s home state of Colorado, runs through the story.

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