CECELIA CONDIT: THE DARK FOREST OF DREAMS

Since 1981, 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 Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and the Centre Georges Pompidou Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France.

"I consider myself a storyteller working within the psychological landscape of contemporary fairy tales, dreams and poetry. I explore archetypal themes where my characters are often shaped by violence, basic cold-heartedness and trauma. The last few years, I find myself leaning towards creating works that consider the frailty of an environmentally vulnerable world and our place in it. This world might be in a backyard, a deserted housing project, a snow-covered rock or a rough sea." - Cecelia Condit

Included films
Beneath the Skin (1981, 12min)
Possibly in Michigan (1983, 11min)
Not a Jealous Bone (1987, 10min)
Suburbs of Eden (1992, 15min)
Why Not a Sparrow (2003, 12min)
All About a Girl (2004, 5min)
Little Spirits (2005, 8min)
Annie Lloyd (2008, 17min)
Pulling Up Roots (2015, 7min)
Some Dark Place (2016, 4min)
Pizzly Bear (2017, 3min)
We Were Hardly More Than Children (2019, 9min)
I've Been Afraid (2020, 6min)
AI and I (2021, 7min)

Bonus features
Cecelia Condit Interview (36min)
Cecelia Condit & Her Feminist Fairytales (14min)

Comes with double-sided case, disc art, & insert booklet w/ supplements.

NOTE: you are only paying for the case and artwork, the disc and its contents are FREE.