Pulling Up Roots

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.

"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."

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

A video essay that seeks to represent, study and pay homage to the North American filmmaker Cecelia Condit, covering all of her film work and video installation, portraying her through devices of semiotics, aesthetics and cinematographic language.

"In Concert" is a 3 screen experimental film about the human species ongoing troubled relationship with nature.

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

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

A suburban American woman inherits her grandfather’s Mafia empire and, guided by the Firm’s trusted consigliere, defies everyone’s expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.