Cecelia Condit
Birth : 1947-01-01, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
History
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.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
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.
Cinematography
"In Concert" is a 3 screen experimental film about the human species ongoing troubled relationship with nature.
Director
"I've Been Afraid" blends stories of women who have been threatened.
Director of Operations
"I've Been Afraid" blends stories of women who have been threatened.
Narrator
"I've Been Afraid" blends stories of women who have been threatened.
Friend of Edith
A long-empty farmstead holds secret worlds, accidentally unlocked by an amateur photographer and his wife.
Lena's friend
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.
Director
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.
Director
A giraffe and a zebra fight over an undefined baby creature in hopes of making it one of their own species.
Director
Pizzly Bear, a cross between a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear, is an environmental fairy tale about a little bear's confusion around its identity.
Director
Pulling Up Roots is the emotional journey of a woman who is navigating the tenuous strain between the past and the future.
Director
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.
A film by Cecelia Condit.
Director
A film by Cecelia Condit.
Director
Annie Lloyd is a daughter's complex and poetic documentation of the last four years of her mother's life and a portrayal of the creativity and wisdom of old age.
Director
Condit's son Lloyd Vogel unicycling on a beautiful fall day.
Writer
A young girl who plays a trick on a friend, unaware or uninterested in the possible consequences.
Director
A young girl who plays a trick on a friend, unaware or uninterested in the possible consequences.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Director
'How many sparrows an I worth today?' As a means of measuring species, human performers take to the trees in the guise of birds.
Director
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.
Director
An experimental film looking at how a housewife struggles with the demands placed on her as a wife, mother, career-woman.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Director
"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."
