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Edge of Alchemy
Animation
2018
19 min
Boulder, CO
Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor, seamlessly appropriated from their early silent films, are cast in a surreal epic with an upending of the Frankenstein story and a contemporary undercurrent of hive collapse. In this handmade film, Stacey Steers selects sequences from early cinematic sources, prints the frames and re-contextualizes the action, allowing the ‘story" assembled from appropriated images to evolve over time. She inserts her actors into newly imagined collage environments, built by hand from fragments of 19th century engravings and illustrations. Music by the Polish composer Lech Jankowski (Brothers Quay).