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Acclaimed Colorado artist Stacey Steers premiered her latest experimental film at the Denver Art Museum, Saturday, January 31st at 3:30pm. Titled, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑔𝑜, Steers’s astounding, hard-won animation is composed of thousands of handmade collages, built through time-intensive frame-by-frame sequencing, with each second of film requiring eight individual collages. The complex, 22-minute film invites the viewer into a magically surreal, visually stunning world, where climate instability and the existential threat of wildfires emerge as a prominent theme. 

The premiere was followed by a solo exhibition at Robischon Gallery, also titled 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑊𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐿𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑔𝑜. Along with the film, the exhibition offers a mesmerizing array of scopic objects, designed to uniquely house and amplify the film, and a series of Steers' collage works which formed the building blocks of the film. Her dreamlike works explore a kind of psychological landscape, referencing history yet prescient and reflective of contemporary cultural concerns.