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.

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.

"In Concert" is a 3 screen experimental film about the human species ongoing troubled relationship with nature.

"I've Been Afraid" blends stories of women who have been threatened.

"I've Been Afraid" blends stories of women who have been threatened.

"I've Been Afraid" blends stories of women who have been threatened.

Ben e Lydia Holland se mudaram para uma antiga fazenda em um grande terreno em Wisconsin, na esperança de escapar de sua vida estressante e movimentada em Chicago. Finalmente, tendo a chance de respirar, os dois começam suas novas vidas explorando paixões que estavam anteriormente em espera. Quando Ben percebe figuras misteriosas aparecendo em suas fotografias, ele tenta desvendar o passado sombrio que cerca sua nova fazenda. Enquanto a pressão do xerife e o assédio dos moradores levam Ben e Lydia a um ponto de ruptura, o casal se aproxima perigosamente de descobrir a verdade por trás das aparições no campo.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A film by Cecelia Condit.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

'How many sparrows an I worth today?' As a means of measuring species, human performers take to the trees in the guise of birds.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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."