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Eleanor Antin

From the Archives of Modern Art

  • Comedy
  • Documentary
  • Music
RELEASE

1987-01-01

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LENGTH

31 min

Description

In this work of documentary fiction, an archivist attempts to put together the "lost years" of Eleanor Antinova, the once-celebrated black ballerina of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, when she returned to her native America to eke out a meager living in vaudeville and early cinema. Eleanor Antin uses fictional characters, autobiography, and narrative to invent histories and explore what she calls "the slippery nature of the self".