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Kitchen Creature Feature (2001)
Monster in a domestic crisis.
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Charleston Home Movie (1980)
Memories and images of Charleston, South Carolina. Rotoscope animation of significant friends and moments. Film is represented in several collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Music by Keith Jarrett, used with permission.
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Night Sounds: Imagination (1992)
Animation for Sesame Street. A little girl is so scared by the night sounds, and she is not the only one! Animation by Deanna Morse and Rose Rosely, with sound by Billy Vits.
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Lost Ground (1992)
A modern love story. Michigan to Chicago by train in 1992, early 3D animation.
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Monkey’s T-shirt (1991)
Animated short for Sesame Street. An embedded figures puzzle, animated by Deanna Morse and Rose Rosely. Sound by Billy Vits. Look! The animals are hiding! Can you find them?
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August Afternoons (1985)
Sunlight and shadows whisk through time. Optically printed from Super 8 footage. Charleston, SC, with Randy Buggs and Ray Harvey.
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A Mother’s Advice (2000)
Body images and a rite of passage. Based on a story by Beth Isacke, inspired by her hair. Created during an artist residency at Ragdale Artists Colony, Illinois. Sound design by Edie Herrold.
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Sandpaintings (1992)
Two Navajo-inspired figures explore symbols and their meaning. Piano music by VR inventor and philosopher Jaron Lanier. A pioneering film using VPL DataGlove motion tracking to animate the sign language hand. Art is not to be feared.
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Help! I’m Stranded… (1981)
Help! I’m stranded… in a Spartanburg motel room with: 1. a broken TV, 2. some note cards, and 3. a red crayon. It’s a true story. A rubbing film, a sound-image guessing game.
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How Animation Works: Move-Click-Move (2001)
The introductory signature video for the award-winning retrospective DVD Move-Click-Move, published in 2001. An interactive journey through the artist’s cluttered desktop.
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Plants (1989)
Plants can't walk. Plants don't talk. Plants can't see. Plants don't have legs.
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Marriages (1970)
Dancers reveal Japanese Kanji word origins.
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The Midnight Dance (1975)
When dolls come alive...
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Cats at the Door (1978)
A daring escape attempt. Kittens.
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Ranky Tanky (1978)
Cut-out animation.
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Jimmie Brown the Newsboy (1978)
Silhouette animation with pet frog.
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Starcycle (1978)
The metamorphic lifecycle of a cartoon star.
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Reality Check (1981)
Cut-out animation.
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Hand (1982)
A hand dance.
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Camera People: Home Movie Stars (1984)
Friends react to being "on camera."
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Artist In The Schools (1989)
Documents a 1986 video-workshop at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind.
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Dogs (1992)
A poem about all types of dogs.
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The A.M. Dream (1990)
Questioning cultural dreams.
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Recipe for Birds (2020)
An international collaboration where artist-animators work with kids to make animation on a common theme. This theme: Recipes from your home country. Our Oregon, USA backyard birds are hungry.
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Forced Perspective: Odessa (2007)
My visit to the real steps at Odessa was affected by the Odessa Steps sequence from Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin. Media images have power. They shape our real-life experiences.
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Postcards from My Backyard (2007)
An exploration of a single space over two years’ time—the seasons of Michigan. Incorporating time-lapse footage, motion graphics, and my own musical soundscape, this video poem considers growth, decay, and transformation.
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Dejeunez, Mon Amour (1970)
Close-up vision of American consumption. Before tattoos were all the rage, filmmakers Mark Henriksen and Deanna Morse had a vision. And some food. And some stock music. One of my earliest films, student-produced at Iowa State University.
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Whispers of the Prairie (2013)
The first American Iawn: prairie. Back to our roots, to the medley of native flowers that thrive in our forests and our sustainably landscaped lawns. In contrast, manicured green unsustainable turf grass. Music by Edie Herrold.
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Skin (2015)
Thick skinned, thin skinned. The first line of defense. A surface archive. Created as an artist-in-residence at the Everglades National Park, Florida. Trees. Many trees. Mosquitos, too. Sound design by Edie Herrold.
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Breathing Room (2009)
Examining nature through the lens of time. Light sweeps languidly across the tiles in a room. Outside, the flowers erupt in a riot of color. Created at Fundacion Valparaiso, an artist colony in Mojacar, Spain. Music by Edie Herrold.
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The Gift (2019)
Celebrating Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday, and his poem “To a Certain Cantatrice.” This multigenerational female family reading honors Whitman’s point that basic needs belong to everyone. Food, nature, creative expression, art. Yes, they belong to everyone. Original music by Edie Herrold.
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Container Loss (2022)
Climate crisis, gyres, garbage patches, natural phenomena, human response, hope, loss, optimism, equanimity, integrity, awareness, and responsibility. Reminders. Cutout animation and time lapse. Animated with Jane Flint. Music by Chris Gagnon.


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