Colorado-based filmmaker Stacey Steers created Phantom Canyon in 2006; it is the first film in a trilogy she is completing this year. The film captures one woman’s mysterious and personal voyage through memories of a romance and the birth of a child.
For this exhibition, Steers built an ambitious, new installation based on a vignette central to the film. The fifteen-foot tower of beds, with a projection of Phantom Canyon playing on one of the lower frames, offers a physical manifestation of the protagonist’s interior journey.
Steers says she is “interested in the creative engagement with reality through the medium of memory.” Composed of over 4,000 collages, Phantom Canyon’s haunting imagery is a mixture of 18th- and 19th-century engravings and figures from Eadweard Muybridge’s human and animal locomotion photographs, first published in 1887.
Photo: Stacey Steers, Phantom Canyon (still image), 2006; 35mm black and white film. Courtesy of the artist.
This exhibit runs through January 1.
