Cecilia Dougherty
Videography
Video Clips Kevin and Cedar |
Gone |
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Gone is a 2-channel video based on the second episode of producer Craig Gilbert's An American Family, the landmark 1970s Public Television cinema verite documentary about the Loud Family of Santa Barbara, California. The second episode of the series follows mother Pat Loud's arrival in New York, where she spends the week with her son Lance, who is living at the Chelsea Hotel. In Gone, I create a variation on the theme of parental visits to wayward queer children by mapping much of the dialogue and documentary scenes from the original television series onto a contemporary community of artists and writers in New York. As a 2-channel piece, Gone expands the possibilities for narrative logic in documentary work and provides more room to play with notions of how the passage of time, simultaneity, and memory work together in storytelling. Gone is homage to the continual transmogrification of the art scene from the street up, and to New York City itself. |
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