Films & Video
| Reign of the Dog: A Re-Visionist History view on Vimeo | ||
16mm film, 16 minutes, 1994. |
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| Reign of the Dog animates allegorical and documentary
images, maps and text to explore and deconstruct the history
of the conquest of the Americas. The film's canine spin
derives from the Spanish fighting dogs introduced and
first used against native resistance by Columbus in 1494.
-Seattle Art Museum Premiere, November 1994. |
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Havana International Festival of New Latin American Cinema. "Anima Mundi", Rio de Janeiro. Ann Arbor Film Festival. San Antonio Cine Festival. Big Muddy Film Festival. Carolina Film & Video Festival. Seattle International Film Festival. Metropolitan Film Festival. "Festival de Libre Enganche", Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio. Albany International Short Film Festival. Rainy States Film Festival. Women in the Director's Chair Festival. Tercer Festival Internacional de Escuelas de Cine, Mexico. The Other America Film Festival, San Antonio. | |
| Rental & Sales:
The Cinema Guild
In Seattle, available rent-free from Scarecrow Video courtesy of The Seattle Art Commission. | ||
Wanda | ||
| view on Vimeo Video, 4 minutes, 1990 |
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| Wanda is a short story of feline and feminine desire.
In this delightful piece composed of video animation and
live-action footage in Super and Video 8 the narrator reflects
on the unrestrained behavior of her cat in heat. Reviewed by Karen Rosenberg in Women & Animation: A Compendium. Jurors' Award, Black Maria Film & Video Festival, 1991. The 39th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, 1993. The Learning Channel, Through Her Eyes , 1992-96. Women in the Director's Chair Festival Tour, 1992. Midnight Theater, KCTS-9, Seattle, 1991. Dallas Video Festival, 1991. Video Shorts 10, 1991 The Fifth International Festival of Films by Women Directors, Seattle, 1990} Available on the dvd compilation "Desire and Sexuality: Animating the Unconscious" Vol. 3 through the British Animation Awards. |
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Your First Amendment Rights | ||
| Video, 2 minutes, 1996 Director & Animator Ruth Hayes. Soundtrack by Wrick Wolff. |
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| An animated interpretation of First Amendment Rights. Produced by The National Campaign For Freedom of Expression. | ||
| Currently only available on vhs. | ||
Eggs | ||
16mm, 4 minutes, 1977 |
view on Vimeo
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| Motion studies of eggs which break and fall. Vulnerably,
helplessly propelled into life and fleeing hordes of stampeding sperm, they generate a vision of Eden and exact revenge on the chickens. | ||
New York Film Festival, 1978. Student Academy Awards Finalist, 1978. Los Angeles International Film Exposition, 1979. Available on 16mm for rental. | ||
Body Sketches | ||
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view on Vimeo 16mm, 6 minutes, 1978
Nine separate animated cycles of human figure drawings | |
Director's Choice, Sinking Creek Film Festival, 1979. Available on 16mm only for rental or sale. | ||
 | Odyssey: 20 Years in 2 Minutes view on Vimeo 16mm, silent, 2 min, 1975, Animation by Ruth Hayes | |
Waterworks 16mm, 4 minutes, 1991
Directed by Patricia Galvis Asmus
Soundtrack by Sheila Sofian and Doug Lovied | ||
| One weekend at Cal Arts, six Experimental Animation students converged and improvised, animating cut-outs,
watercolors, seaweed, teabags and dried fish. Available for rental only. | ||
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