On the opening night of Cinema Pacific (April 18-22, http://cinemapacific.uoregon.edu) Steers will take the audience on a tour of her media installation, Night Hunter, on display at the JSMA. Preceding this will be a program of the artistís animated films. Totem (1999, 11 min.) explores our evolving relationship to the animal world. Phantom Canyon (2006, 10 min.) explores a womanís fantastical journey through memories and incorporates figures from Eadweard Muybridgeís motion studies. In Night Hunter (2011, 16 min.), composed of more than 4,000 collages, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and plunged into a new and haunting role.
Schnitzer Cinema, a monthly film cafe series co-presented with the Cinema Pacific film festival during the academic year, features new independent films and filmmaker dialogues, free popcorn and other refreshments.
