Night Reels, the exhibition on view in the Project Gallery and the Multipurpose Hall through June 6, features the work of Stacey Steers, a visual artist who incorporates elements from classic films into her 2D paper collage, animation, and sculptural works. Before the show closes, the Dryden will screen 35mm prints of two silent films Steers used in creating two of her works on display. Steers’s Night Hunter includes footage of Lillian Gish from her star turn in The Wind (Victor Sjöström, 1928); and her Edge of Alchemy uses footage of Janet Gaynor from her Academy Award–winning role in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau, 1927). Great films on their own, seeing them in the context of Night Reels will expand your appreciation of both.
Events in this Series
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Stacey Steers Acclaimed German director F. W. Murnau’s (Nosferatu, The Last Laugh) first Hollywood film elicited extraordinary praise from the critics.
The Wind
Ed Stratmann/Stacey Steers One of the greatest of silent films, The Wind is suffused with an elegiac quality due to the advent of sound. In his last silent directorial effort, director Victor Sjöström elicits one of the silent screen’s greatest performances from Lillian Gish (also in her last silent role).