Films & Video

Reign of the Dog: A Re-Visionist History
16mm film, 16 minutes, 1994. Animator & Director: Ruth Hayes Composer: Kasandra Woodring Audio Mix: John Hawk
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. -Civil Disobediance Award, Humboldt International Film Festival. -Second Prize, Athens International Film & Video Festival. -Director's Citation, Black Maria Film & Video Festival. -Alpha Cine Lab Award and Best of the Northwest Tour, Northwest Film & Video Festival.
	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.
Institutional Rental & Sales: Cinema Guild link: http://www.cinemaguild.com/cinemaguild Individual video sales order form In Seattle, available rent-free from Scarecrow Video courtesy of The Seattle Art Commission.
Wanda
Video, 4 minutes, 1990 Director & Animator: Ruth Hayes Audio Mix: John Hawk On Line: Michael Cho Additional Camera: Gina Dabrowski
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 & Animaton: 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 for sale to individuals & institutions Individual video sales order form Institutional rental or sales: Email Ruth at randomruth@comcast.net
Your First Amendment Rights
Video, 2 minutes, 1996 Director & Animator Ruth Hayes. Soundtrack by Wrick Wolff.
An animated interpretation of First Amendment Rights. Produced by The National Campaign For Freedom of Expression.
Contact: ncfe@nwlink.com
Eggs
16mm, 4 minutes, 1977 Animation by Ruth Hayes. Soundtrack by Benjamin Yarmolinsky
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 only for rental or sale. Email Ruth at randomruth@comcast.net
Body Sketches
	16mm, 6 minutes, 1978 Animation & Soundtrack by Ruth Hayes Nine separate animated cycles of human figure drawings intercut with self-portraits and rotoscoped ocean footage repeat, converge and spill over into watery confusion.
Director's Choice, Sinking Creek Film Festival, 1979. Available on 16mm only for rental or sale. Email Ruth at randomruth@comcast.net
Waterworks 16mm, 4 minutes, 1991 Directed by Patricia Galvis Asmus Soundtrack by Sheila Sofian and Doug Lovied Animators: Ruth Hayes, Eymard Porto, Aida Sanchez,Dane Picard, Jeremy Bishop, Patricia Galvis-Asmus
One weekend, six artists converged and improvised, animating cut-outs, watercolors, seaweed, teabags and dried fish. Available for rental only.

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