Cecelia Condit Videoworks: Volume 1
01:10:00 | 1 DVD
Collection: Single Artist Compilations
Tags: Death and Dying, Family, Feminism, Humor, Music, Poetry, Videoworks, Youth/Childhood
Though the use of fairytales and dark fantasies, these works combine the commonplace with the macabre to construct a new world of the subconscious.
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"Relating a tale told by a girl on a swing, Beneath the Skin explores the contrast between the impersonal horror of a news story heard on television and the involvement of the storyteller in a nightmare, which gradually becomes more...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: feminism |
Possibly In Michigan is an operatic fairytale about cannibalism in Middle America. A masked man stalks a woman through a shopping mall and follows her home. In the end, their roles are reversed when the heroine deposits a...
Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles Tags: consumer culture, feminism, music |
Invoking a biblical story of life coming from dry bones, Condit constructs an experimental narrative about an older woman’s confrontation with her own mortality after the death of her mother. The bone represents the promise of youth and hope—a...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: aging, death and dying, family, feminism |
In Oh, Rapunzel, when Rapunzel flees the tower, Condit's mother leaves her home for an independent living facility and a freedom that she has never known. A collaboration between Cecelia Condit and Dick Blau. Music by Stephen Vogel. Re...
Collection: Single Titles |
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