Beneath the Skin
Directed byCecelia Condit
Written byCecelia Condit
StarringJill Sands
Jennifer Dunegan
Marian Condit
Mary Jo Toles
Stephen Vogel
Robert Biederman
Lisa Kohn
Judith Allston
Music byKaren Skladany
Running time
11:30
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Beneath the Skin is a 1981 short film created by Cecelia Condit. 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.

Skin 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.[1] Condit, who began dating Einhorn, never found Maddux's corpse due to being on medication that hindered her sense of smell.[2]

The film can be found on Condit's personal YouTube channel.

Plot

The movie follows the narration an unnamed woman recounting a series of events surrounding her four-year relationship with an unnamed man, and how the corpse of his ex-girlfriend was discovered in his apartment after other tenants began to complain of a pungent smell.

Reception

The film was noted for its humorous play with the macabre. [3][4][5]Its feminist approach is also commented[6][7][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Who Was the 'Unicorn Killer'? How a 1960s Activist-Turned-Murderer Evaded Extradition for 23 Years". Inside Edition. 2020-04-09.
  2. ↑ Breda, Alix (2017-11-29). "Cecelia Condit's Body of Becoming: Women and the Dark Forest of Dreams". Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
  3. ↑ Intermix (Organization), Electronic Arts (1991). Artists' Video: An International Guide. Cross River Press. ISBN 978-1-55859-357-2.
  4. ↑ Renov, Michael; Suderburg, Erika (1996). Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-2330-3.
  5. ↑ Higgins, Steven; N.Y.), Museum of Modern Art (New York (2006). Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of The Museum of Modern Art. The Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 978-0-87070-326-3.
  6. ↑ Ravenal, John B. (2002). Outer & Inner Space: Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Neshat, Jane & Louise Wilson, and the History of Video Art. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. ISBN 978-0-917046-61-2.
  7. ↑ The Independent. Foundation for Independent Video and Film. 1985.
  8. ↑ Woman's Art Journal. Woman's Art. 1982.
  9. ↑ Straayer, Arny Christine (1990). Sexual Subjects: Signification, Viewership. and Pleasure in Film and Video.
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