
Cecelia Condit
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Biography
Cecelia Condit is an American artist who works in video. Fusing humor and horror, the whimsical and the macabre, Cecelia Condit tells stories that uncover dark fantasies of the subconscious beneath the surreal suburban landscape of Middle America. Condit's elliptical narratives, which have been termed "feminist fairy tales," put a subversive spin on the traditional mythologies of female representation and the psychologies of sexuality and violence.
Known For

A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.
Possibly in Michigan

A long-empty farmstead holds secret worlds, accidentally unlocked by an amateur photographer and his wife.
The Field

"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 familiar and commonplace as the tale unfolds. The straightforward approach of the teller is humorously or frighteningly contrasted by a bombardment of visual images which mock or intensify the macabre flavor of the work."
Beneath the Skin

In All About A Girl, an ordinary game of "let's pretend" turns uncanny as, alone in the woods, a young girl projects life, voice and ultimately her own identity onto an unexpected surrogate in a doll's dress.
All About a Girl

A video essay that seeks to represent, study and pay homage to the North American filmmaker Cecelia Condit, covering all of her film work and video installation, portraying her through devices of semiotics, aesthetics and cinematographic language.
Puxando Raízes com Cecelia Condit

A woman questions the nature of what it is to be alive and human, conscious or man-made. While pondering her complex co-dependence on technology, she explores the earth and its pathways, all the while dragging electrical cords behind her.
AI and I
Within a Stone's Throw plays with the unfolding of human and geologic time, and probes the connections and displacements that exist between ourselves and the natural world.
Within a Stone's Throw

An experimental film looking at how a housewife struggles with the demands placed on her as a wife, mother, career-woman.
Suburbs of Eden

In 'Some Dark Place', filmmaker Cecelia Condit explores the dislocations of identity and memory that aging forces upon us without losing sight of life's beauty.
Some Dark Place

Pulling Up Roots is the emotional journey of a woman who is navigating the tenuous strain between the past and the future.
Pulling Up Roots

“World” is concerned with scale and time, moving between the smallness of a glass ball and the largeness and timelessness of the planet earth.
World

An epic tale of a botched abortion as lived by two women on a perilous journey through a world that has little concern for their survival.
We Were Hardly More Than Children
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.
Oh, Rapunzel

An interview with Cecelia Condit about her film 'Possibly in Michigan'.
Interview with Cecelia Condit

A giraffe and a zebra fight over an undefined baby creature in hopes of making it one of their own species.
Tales of a Future Past

'How many sparrows an I worth today?' As a means of measuring species, human performers take to the trees in the guise of birds.
Why Not a Sparrow

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 promise jealously coveted by the young, but needed more by those grown old. Inverting cultural values, Condit represents feminine youth as a mannequin, and seeks humanity in the form of the older woman, who is reborn by overcoming her fear of death.
Not a Jealous Bone

A young girl who plays a trick on a friend, unaware or uninterested in the possible consequences.
Little Spirits

Sitting in the genre of Eco-Feminism,, 'A Parable of Now' is is a 3-channel video installation with many meanings. At its heart, it is a meditation on the state of innocence and childhood that we abandoned to a troubled world.
A Parable of Now

Condit's son Lloyd Vogel unicycling on a beautiful fall day.