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Cecelia Condit

Born 1947 - Philadelphia, PA

Since the early 1980s Cecelia Condit’s narrative videos have explored the not-so-average experiences of the “average woman” in a social climate of sublimated violence, fear, and misogynist aggression. Her dark-humored works conflate fairy tale morals with the grisly sensationalism of tabloid headlines, incorporating live action, appropriated television images, and original music into frequently operatic narratives. Condit is a Professor Emerita of Film and Video at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

"My work centers around the theme of how bizarre events disrupt mundane lives. By contrasting the commonplace with the macabre, humor with the absurd, I address a reality that is both surprisingly believable, yet strange enough to belong only to the realm of fiction."
— Cecelia Condit  

Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, 2005


Available Titles by Cecelia Condit

Title Year Runtime Collection
AI and I 2021 00:07:17 New Releases, Single Titles
All About A Girl 2004 00:05:25 Single Titles
Annie Lloyd 2008 00:18:15 Single Titles
Beneath the Skin 1981 00:12:00 Single Titles
Cecelia Condit Videoworks: Volume 2 2019 Compilations, Single Artist Compilations
Cecelia Condit Videoworks: Volume 1 1996 01:10:00 Compilations, Single Artist Compilations
I've Been Afraid 2020 00:06:35 Single Titles
Little Spirits 2005 00:08:35 Single Titles
Not a Jealous Bone 1987 00:11:00 Single Titles
Oh, Rapunzel 1996 00:35:00 Single Titles
Pizzly Bear 2017 00:03:40 Single Titles
Possibly in Michigan 1983 00:12:00 Early Video Art, Single Titles
Problematizing Pleasure / Punk Theory 2017 01:07:18 Curated Compilations
Pulling Up Roots 2015 00:07:36 Single Titles
Some Dark Place 2016 00:05:00 Single Titles
Tales of a Future Past 2018 00:07:55 Single Titles
We Were Hardly More Than Children 2019 00:08:23 Single Titles
Why Not A Sparrow 2003 00:12:59 Single Titles
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