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The dream and the waking

Cecilia Dougherty

1997 00:15:00 United StatesEnglishColorMono4:3
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"The dream and the waking is a documentation of my commute between New York and Boston, which I make every week for my job. I wanted to document not only the fact of the commute--where I go and how I get there, what I am leaving behind and what I am going to--but also the stream of thought that runs through my mind on this commute. The trip was not something I would normally do unless I absolutely had to, and for almost a year it was the one part of my life that never changed. The space of the commute is like a non-space, like a recurring dream. It combines the public space of the road with a deeply solitary mental space. There is nothing in-between."

--Cecilia Dougherty

This title is also availalble on Cecilia Dougherty Videoworks: Volume 2.

About Cecilia Dougherty

Cecilia Dougherty's videotapes explore the nature of women's relationships to family life, society and the everyday, as well as feminist analysis of lesbian sexuality, psychologies, and relationships inside a culture that is, at best, indifferent and at worst, hostile. She often uses methodologies borrowed from documentary and biography to map contemporary realities over pop-historical icons creating work that deals with nostalgia, popular culture, and an extension of the idea of what is contemporary and what is behind us as a society.

Also see:

Cecilia Dougherty: An Interview