Cecelia Condit

A long-empty farmstead holds secret worlds, accidentally unlocked by an amateur photographer and his wife.

A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.

A young girl who plays a trick on a friend, unaware or uninterested in the possible consequences.

This 3-channel video installation shows a woman dressed in a slip who rummages around a basement. She births a baby doll, then finds another one, wondering if it's her or her mother.

An experimental film looking at how a housewife struggles with the demands placed on her as a wife, mother, career-woman.

16mm. Colour. Sound. 8 minutes.

A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.

A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.

A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.

A young girl who plays a trick on a friend, unaware or uninterested in the possible consequences.

A young girl who plays a trick on a friend, unaware or uninterested in the possible consequences.

This 3-channel video installation shows a woman dressed in a slip who rummages around a basement. She births a baby doll, then finds another one, wondering if it's her or her mother.

An experimental film looking at how a housewife struggles with the demands placed on her as a wife, mother, career-woman.

16mm. Colour. Sound. 8 minutes.

Oh, Rapunzel is a fairy tale wrapped around a documentary. Set on the grounds of a decaying estate in Philadelphia, the video documents the life of eighty-year-old Annie Lloyd Hord Condit, a descendent of what was once one of the great families of Pennsylvania and mother of the artist. Her story is told through both documentary footage and scenes from the fairy tale Rapunzel. Condit revises the classic tale and restages the old woman's life.

In All About A Girl, an ordinary game of "let's pretend" turns uncanny as, alone in the woods, a young girl projects life, voice and ultimately her own identity onto an unexpected surrogate in a doll's dress.

In All About A Girl, an ordinary game of "let's pretend" turns uncanny as, alone in the woods, a young girl projects life, voice and ultimately her own identity onto an unexpected surrogate in a doll's dress.

"I've Been Afraid" blends stories of women who have been threatened.

“World” is concerned with scale and time, moving between the smallness of a glass ball and the largeness and timelessness of the planet earth.

Annie Lloyd is a daughter's complex and poetic documentation of the last four years of her mother's life and a portrayal of the creativity and wisdom of old age.

Within a Stone's Throw plays with the unfolding of human and geologic time, and probes the connections and displacements that exist between ourselves and the natural world.

Pizzly Bear, a cross between a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear, is an environmental fairy tale about a little bear's confusion around its identity.

Pizzly Bear, a cross between a Polar Bear and a Grizzly Bear, is an environmental fairy tale about a little bear's confusion around its identity.

Invoking a biblical story of life coming from dry bones, Condit constructs an experimental narrative about an older woman’s confrontation with her own mortality after the death of her mother. The bone represents the promise of youth and hope—a promise jealously coveted by the young, but needed more by those grown old. Inverting cultural values, Condit represents feminine youth as a mannequin, and seeks humanity in the form of the older woman, who is reborn by overcoming her fear of death.

Invoking a biblical story of life coming from dry bones, Condit constructs an experimental narrative about an older woman’s confrontation with her own mortality after the death of her mother. The bone represents the promise of youth and hope—a promise jealously coveted by the young, but needed more by those grown old. Inverting cultural values, Condit represents feminine youth as a mannequin, and seeks humanity in the form of the older woman, who is reborn by overcoming her fear of death.

"Relating a tale told by a girl on a swing, Beneath the Skin explores the contrast between the impersonal horror of a news story heard on television and the involvement of the storyteller in a nightmare, which gradually becomes more familiar and commonplace as the tale unfolds. The straightforward approach of the teller is humorously or frighteningly contrasted by a bombardment of visual images which mock or intensify the macabre flavor of the work."

Condit's son Lloyd Vogel unicycling on a beautiful fall day.

Pulling Up Roots is the emotional journey of a woman who is navigating the tenuous strain between the past and the future.

A story told by a woman on a couch, asking herself the question, "How did I come out of this unbroken?"

A story told by a woman on a couch, asking herself the question, "How did I come out of this unbroken?"

A woman questions the nature of what it is to be alive and human, conscious or man-made. While pondering her complex co-dependence on technology, she explores the earth and its pathways, all the while dragging electrical cords behind her.

A woman questions the nature of what it is to be alive and human, conscious or man-made. While pondering her complex co-dependence on technology, she explores the earth and its pathways, all the while dragging electrical cords behind her.

A giraffe and a zebra fight over an undefined baby creature in hopes of making it one of their own species.

In 'Some Dark Place', filmmaker Cecelia Condit explores the dislocations of identity and memory that aging forces upon us without losing sight of life's beauty.

Sitting in the genre of Eco-Feminism,, 'A Parable of Now' is is a 3-channel video installation with many meanings. At its heart, it is a meditation on the state of innocence and childhood that we abandoned to a troubled world.

An epic tale of a botched abortion as lived by two women on a perilous journey through a world that has little concern for their survival.

'How many sparrows an I worth today?' As a means of measuring species, human performers take to the trees in the guise of birds.