Amy Ruhl (Official Site) is a filmmaker and visual artist working in Brooklyn, New York. One of her primary concerns is exploring how the advent of cinema uniquely technologized the human body, and more specifically, created a new language to articulate desire and anxiety over the female form. Drawing on a strong interest in social histories, she creates period pieces that layer chroma-keyed footage onto backgrounds collaged from archival photographs, 8 and 16mm film, overhead projections, and manipulated found objects. Using this technique, her characters' bodies become animated objects, free from the physical constraints of reality, but never immune to the cruelty of slapstick.