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Cecelia Condit, who teaches film at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, presents a career-spanning program of her videos, which have aspects of the horror movie, fairy tale, avant-garde film, and Hollywood musical. She's written that they “explore the dark side of female subjectivity,” but what most engages me is how, with characters breaking into song at the most unpredictable moments, they can seem unclassifiable, even charmingly goofy. The lyrics are often the most meaningful element, but meaning is highly provisional here, as the chaotic forces of the id escape. In the earliest short, Possibly in Michigan (1983), a wolfman pursues two women in a shopping mall, but not every woman is a victim (we hear of one who microwaved her poodle). Both childhood (for its free imagination) and old age (for its sense of limits) are frequent subjects. 70 min.
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