Cleopatra’s Dream, Wendy Woon 1981 (Super-8, color, 5 minutes, 1 second)
This film is my first experience with a Super-8 film. I experimented with combining various forms of animation and live-action as a collage. It includes drawings, props, such as croquet mallets made for a critique croquet match, oversized crocodile shoes, and found drawings from the urban environment of Chicago. It’s inspired by fairytales and dream sequences. It’s a mess, but it’s mine!
Black/White Magic, Wendy Woon 1981 (Super-8, color, 5 minutes 47 seconds)
My second Super-8 film takes the same collage approach, focusing on the black-and-white dualities I thought about a lot in Mexico, a place filled with brilliant color. Popular arts collected in Mexico mix with animated graphics from 19th-century print materials, Jose Guadalupe Posada prints, and familiar children’s games bought at the market. More experimentation with hand-drawn animation sequences is interspersed.
Classic Suite, Wendy Woon 1982 (16 mm, color, 3 minutes, 21 seconds)
My first 16mm hand-drawing animated film, drawing on themes of ancient culture. The sand drawing at the beginning was inspired by a guide explaining the four directions at Mitla; it burned into my visual memory. The pot sequence was inspired by the book about the Odyssey I inherited from my grandmother.