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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
Moving Image Item Type Metadata
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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