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Cecelia Condit

b. 1947

Experimental filmmaker and film professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (born 1947)

Filmmaker Video artist University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
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About Cecelia Condit

Born 1947. Cecelia Condit is an American filmmaker, video artist and university of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, known for Short film and Surrealist film.

Cecelia Ann Condit (born December 15, 1947) is an American video artist. Condit's films are noted for their subversion of traditional mythologies of female representation and psychologies of sexuality and violence.

Condit has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, Mary L. Nohl Foundation, and Wisconsin Arts Council, and the National Media Award from the Retirement Research Foundation. Her work has been shown internationally in festivals, museums and alternative spaces and is represented in collections including the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and Centre Georges Pompidou Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France. In 2008, Condit had her first solo show exhibition at the CUE Art Foundation in New York.

Early life and education Condit was born in Philadelphia on December 15, 1947. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania. She received a BFA in sculpture from the Philadelphia College of Art and a MFA in photography from Tyler School of Art at Temple University.

Career Condit served as professor and director of the graduate program in the Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work received renewed attention in 2015 after her short film Possibly in Michigan was posted to Reddit. Four years later, an audio clip from the same film became a viral hit on TikTok, with over 22,000 iterations created as of July 2019.

Works Beneath The Skin

Beneath the Skin is her first work. A short film, it follows a woman's thoughts and musings towards a recent incident in which she discovered that her boyfriend was hiding the body of his ex-girlfriend in his closet.

It is based on a real-life incident that occurred in Condit's life when she dated Ira Einhorn, also known as the Unicorn Killer. Ira had murdered his ex-girlfriend, Holly Maddux, and hidden her corpse in his closet. Condit, who began dating Einhorn, never found Maddux's corpse due to being on medication that hindered her sense of smell.

Videography

Condit considers the following films to be part of the "Jill Sands trilogy", which refers to three of her films which star the actress Jill Sands; Beneath the Skin, Possibly in Michigan, and Not a Jealous Bone.

Select Installations Condit has created a number of video installations including:

First Dream After Mother Died (2010), a three-channel video installation that was exhibited at the North Dakota Museum of Art Within a Stone's Throw (2012), a three-channel video installation exhibited at the Nevada Museum of Art, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Burren College of Art in Ireland Tales of Future Past (2017), a two-channel video installation exhibited at the Lynden Sculpture Garden

Personal life Condit has two grown sons, Schuyler Vogel, the chaplain at Carleton College, and Lloyd Vogel, chief executive officer at Garage Grown Gear.

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Important facts

Birth century
Nationality
Known for
Short film, Surrealist film
Education
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Temple University, Tyler School of Art, The University of the Arts
Employers
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship
Also known as
Cecilia Condit, Cecelia Ann Condit

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Cecelia Condit?

experimental filmmaker and film professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (born 1947)

When was Cecelia Condit born?

Cecelia Condit was born on 15 December 1947 in Philadelphia.

What is Cecelia Condit's occupation?

Cecelia Condit is a filmmaker, video artist and university of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

What is Cecelia Condit known for?

Cecelia Condit is known for Short film and Surrealist film.

What nationality is Cecelia Condit?

Cecelia Condit is American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Cecelia Condit

· Wikidata: Q19517664

· DBpedia: Cecelia Condit

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