Visiting Film / Video Artist & Speakers Series Spring 2023:

Visiting Film / Video Artist & Speakers Series Spring 2023:
Cecelia Condit: Selected Works
Thursday, March 16, 2023, at 7:30 pm in Lecture Hall 6 TRT 70 min.

In-person presentation

Program: I've Been Afraid (video, color, 6:30 min., 2020) / Possibly in Michigan
(video, color, 11:45 min., 1983) / Suburbs of Eden (video, color, 15:41 min., 1996) / All
About a Girl (video, color, 5:27 min., 2004) / Beneath the Skin (video, color, 11:31
min., 1981) / We Were Hardly More Than Children (video, color, 9:05 min., 2019) / AI
and I (video, color, 7 min., 2021) / PLUS: a new project in progress (excerpt, 3 min.)

Since 1981, CECELIA CONDIT's videos have created heroines whose lives swing
between beauty and the grotesque, innocence and cruelty, youth and fragility. Her work
puts a subversive spin on the traditional mythology of women in film and the psychology
of sexuality and violence. Exploring the dark side of female subjectivity, her "feminist
fairy tales" focus on friendships, age, and the natural world. She has shown
internationally in festivals, museums, and alternative spaces, and is represented in
collections including the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, the Walker Art Center in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne,
Paris, France. She has received numerous film festival awards, and grants from the
Guggenheim Foundation, American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, and
the Mary L. Nohl Foundation. She's a professor emerita in the Department of Film,
Video, Animation & New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she
was the director of the graduate program in film for 30 years.

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