George Eastman Museum

This audio tour has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this audio, do not necessarily represent those of the NEH. Transcript The first of the trilogy films is called Phantom Canyon. For this film I had the idea of incorporating the subjects from Eadweard Muybridge’s human motion studies from 1883. I was familiar with them from my years studying the figure, they are a resource for many artists since they show multiple images of bodies in motion performing various activities. I thought their stop-motion quality made them a natural fit with animation, and also that the male and female figures could become characters in a film that was a metaphorical examination of a relationship. I combined the figures with images from clip-art books which are collections of copy-right free images often used by artists. The bold contrast in the black and white images seemed to work well with the themes of passi