GONE

Biography of Cecilia Dougherty

Titles by Cecilia Dougherty:

Coal Miner's Granddaughter

The Drama Of The Gifted Child

The Dream and the Waking

Gone

Grapefruit

Joe-Joe

My Failure To Assimilate

Work by Cecilia Dougherty also appears on:

Compilation: Cecilia Dougherty: Videoworks Volume 1

Compilation: Cecilia Dougherty: Videoworks Volume 2

Gone is a 2-channel installation based on Episode No. 2 of An American Family, the landmark PBS verite documentary about the Loud Family of Santa Barbara, California. Dougherty has created a free-form variation on the theme of parental visits to wayward queer children by mapping the dialogue and plot onto a contemporary community of artists and writers in New York today. Ultimately an homage to the art underground and to New York City itself.

"Dougherty tests new limits of digital video technologies in her latest work. Partially a re-staging of one episode from 70s proto-reality-TV series 'An American Family,' Gone presents elaborate and intricate new possibilities for narrative through the use of double-screen projection, evoking complex themes of nostalgia, history, memory and loss. Pixelated, popping with lush colors, and elaborately sound-designed, Gone recombines low fidelity with high concept to create a unique vision of inner and outer life on the margins of culture."
--Ed Halter, NY Underground Film Festival "

Proving Godard's dictum that the best way to critique a film is to make another film, Cecilia Dougherty's double-screen video projection Gone takes as inspiration a key episode from Craig Gilbert's 'An American Family.' Using an all-female cast to re-create the pivotal episode in which mother Loud visits her closeted gay son, the discordant, hauntingly scored, visually impressive Gone counts as one of the most expressive and beautiful uses of video I've seen." --Andrew Lewis Conn, Film Comment

Gone stars Laurie Weeks, Amy Sillman and Frances Sorensen and features music by Le Tigre and Mike Iveson.

THIS IS A DUAL CHANNEL SCREENING INSTALLATION. INSTRUCTIONS ARE AVAILABLE.

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