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 second film in the trilogy is Night Hunter. After I completed Phantom Canyon I knew I wanted to continue working with collages, but I was looking for a way to add psychological complexity to the characterizations. I had admired a performance by Lillian Gish in the D.W. Griffith film Broken Blossoms from 1919. Her portrayal of an abused child is quite staggering and vividly emotional. I thought I might be able to lift her from the scenes in that film and bring her into my own world. I began to cut her out of printed film frames and collage her into a mysterious house with a snake and confounding eggs where she is very much alone. I used fragments of 19th century Pre-Raphaelite illustrations to construct the collages. I ended up incorporating images from 4 of her sile