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A 1983 video finds a new audience
In 2019 a 20-second song from Possibly in Michigan spread across TikTok, where thousands of users lip-synced to it.
Feminist fairy tale
Cecelia Condit's own name for her videos, which retell stories about women, desire and violence with humour and horror at once.
Condit borrows the shape of fairy tales, where the cruel and the whimsical sit side by side, and fills it with women who fight back. Her videos mix processed video, Super 8, found footage, sung dialogue and original music, and draw on soap operas, music videos and gothic horror.
Possibly in Michigan, from 1983, is the best known: two women in a shopping mall turn on the masked man who has been stalking them. Decades later it found a new audience online.
Films to start with
In the order they were made. Runtimes are approximate.
Possibly in Michigan
A sung, densely collaged fairy tale set in a suburban shopping mall, in which two women turn on the man in an animal mask who has been stalking them.
Not a Jealous Bone
A musical fairy tale in which an 82-year-old woman and a young woman fight over a magic bone that grants eternal life.
Oh, Rapunzel
Made over twelve years in a decaying Philadelphia estate. Condit retells her mother's life through the story of Rapunzel.
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