Confessions of a Chameleon
A fractured narrative that explores, via video performance, a woman's view of fluctuating reality. This is an intimate work for the television camera that shows the relationship between fantasy and reality.
Awards and mentions
Golden Gate Award
San Francisco International Film Festival
1987
Credits
Direction
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Editing
Lisa English
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Production
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Technical information
Color
Black and white
Color
Documentation
Further information
Commentary by Nicole Gingras, Curator
This video, steeped in the complexity of elements of identity, looks at a series of personality splits instigated and experienced by the videomaker. The idea of the mosaic is manifest in the splitting of the screen into several panes and approached as a reflection of the self, shattered personalities and unstable identity. Narratives succeed one another, some autobiographical, others more or less fictional, the screen divided into 4, 12, 20 or more images.
Images
Keywords
Fantasy, Fragmentation, Self reference
Themes
