Dara Birnbaum: Damnation of Faust Trilogy

Dara Birnbaum

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Dara Birnbaum: Damnation of Faust Trilogy

Using Wagner's Faust as a touchstone, Damnation of Faust is a trilogy of highly structured and composed video works evoking a free-floating, non-linear dream or memory. The broad themes of the work are conflicting forms of societal restraint and the struggles to define and express personal identity.

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Dara Birnbaum

Damnation of Faust: Evocation

1983| 00:10:00

Using “found” imagery shot in a SoHo playground, the first part of the Damnation of Faust trilogy explores the possible relations between childhood play and a woman looking on from outside. Without…

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Tags: Feminism, Literature

Dara Birnbaum

Damnation of Faust: Will-o'-the-Wisp (A Deceitful Goal)

1985| 00:05:38

The second part of the Damnation of Faust Trilogy centers on the development of Marguerite, the female character in the Faust legend. Masterfully composing fragmentary "memory" images in elegant 19th…

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Tags: Feminism, Literature

Dara Birnbaum

Evocation of Faust: Charming Landscape

1987| 00:07:00

The final work in the Damnation of Faust Trilogy, ironically titled Charming Landscape, investigates the way in which the urban landscape is a place "where you lose your identity.” Two female…

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Tags: Feminism

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