The Fancy

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Title

The Fancy

Subject

experimental, woman filmmaker, biography, queer

Description

Gift from filmmaker. She is a friend and colleage and also wrote an essay for my collection "F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing," co-edited with Jesse Lerner (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) about her compelling reenactment film, Shulie.

Date

2000

Abstract

The Fancy is a speculative, experimental work that explores the short life of Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), culled only from the public record of published catalogues of and about her photographs. Structural in form, the video radically reorganizes information from the catalogues in order to pose questions about biographical form, history and fantasy, female subjectivity, evidence, and issues of authorship and intellectual property. "One of the most moving evocations of the irreplaceable quiddity of a person... Somehow Ms. Subrin confers immortality on her subject while at the same time making vivid her irrevocable absence." —A.O.Scott, "Video Art in a World on Tape," The New York Times from elisbethsubrin.com

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Duration

36 mins

Director

Elisabeth Subrin

URL

https://brooklyn-cuny.yuja.com/V/Video?v=11137961&node=49610893&a=50512172

Files

Citation

“The Fancy,” VHS Activism Archive , accessed July 13, 2025, https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/691.

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