Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat

Stills from The Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat, a 16 minute, 35mm, photocollage animation I made in 2004. The film is in the media collection of the New York Public Library and the Ontario School of Art & Design. Distributed in the US by Filmmakers' Cooperative and in Canada by the Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre. Created with funding from the Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.

I shot the film on a 35mm Oxberry Animation stand, an amazing machine which had a very simple computer on which I could program pans and zooms, instead of cranking them frame by frame by hand. The film was created from thousands of pieces of photographs which I first cutout and then recombined under the camera. Certain scenes could take days to animate. The 2nd photo above, with the birds circling around the tree, was from a 30 second scene which took me about 16 hours to animate.

The entire 16 minute film took about 5 years to make.