Sue Ela

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.

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.