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My Failure to Assimilate

Cecilia Dougherty

1995 00:20:00 United StatesEnglishColorMono4:3
Tags:
Feminism, Gender, LGBTQ, Psychoanalysis

Description

My Failure to Assimilate muses on the profound sense of melancholy that sets in after the end of a relationship. The tape uses poetry, songs, collage, interviews, and narrative elements to construct a complex picture of the resulting loss of direction and loss of identity. The tape is organized into three sections: Part 1: 'Schizophrenia'; Part II: 'Alienation'; and Part III: 'True Self'. Central to the question of identity is the interplay between imaginary and symbolic identification.

—Maria Troy and Thompson Owen

This title is also available 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