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Karen Rosenberg reviews the work of professional flip-book-maker Ruth Hayes. These days the flip book is generally considered kiddie fare, if it is considered at all. What’s a flip book? Well, the Germans call it Daumenkino, thumb cinema, because it’s a form of animation: a series of sequential images on a bound stack of paper … Read more

From the California Institute of the Arts, where she is currently studying film, Hayes told me by phone how she came to concentrate on flip books. After graduating from Harvard in 1978, where she studied with George Griffin, Hayes put two of her short animated films on the festival circuit. They made the rounds and … Read more

In her unabashed exploration of the body, Hayes stands within a tradition of women animators in the USA that began in the 1970s. Susan Pill’s film Asparagus, with its clear reference to the smells of piss and the shapes of shit, the dancing penises in Mary Beams’ short film Seed reel, and Ruth Hayes’ own … Read more