Ellen Cantor

Most Popular Ellen Cantor Trailers

Total trailers found: 9

Within Heaven and Hell Trailer (1996)

01 August 1996

Swinging between pleasure and torment, Cantor narrates an autobiographical story of a doomed love affair over scenes from The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974).

Barbie London: Trouble in Space Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

"For years I explored in my art what Snow White was dreaming/desiring while she was in a coma in the glass coffin.

Bambi's Beastly Buddies Trailer (2004)

11 May 2004

"In Bambi's Beastly Buddies, Bambi and skunk embody innocence, vulnerability and love. I lit Bambi on fire to a refrain from Beethoven's Ode to Joy, on the morning of May 11, 2004, when I read that Nick Berg, an American telecommunications contractor, was beheaded by Islamic militants on live video.

Remember Me Trailer (1998)

01 December 1998

Through video collage, Cantor sets her unapologetically fatalist observations on love and intimacy to a wide-ranging set of audio-visual quotations, including clips from Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura, Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly, the well-known beach scene from From Here to Eternity, the works of John Cassavetes, and more.

Madame Bovary's Revenge Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

"In her very first moving image work, Cantor already displays the masterly use of appropriated footage for which she would become known, inserting explicit scenes from the classic porn film Behind the Green Door (1972) into key scenes of lovemaking from Louis Malle's 1959 succès de scandale The Lovers.

Evokation of My Demon Sister Trailer (2002)

01 May 2002

Cantor reimagines Kenneth Anger’s Invokation of My Demon Brother (1969) as if it were a paean to Hindu goddess of destruction Kali instead of Lucifer.

Pinochet Porn Trailer (2016)

11 June 2016

Using her 2004 series of eighty-two drawings, Circus Lives from Hell, as an unconventional “script,” feminist artist Ellen Cantor (1961–2013) worked on her most ambitious project, Pinochet Porn, for the last five years of her life.

Club Vanessa (The London Tape) Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

'Club Vanessa' is a video about "real love" in the form of a sex tape. "Club Vanessa, a video about the present, begins with me fantasizing about what our lives will be like in the future.

If I Just Turn and Run Trailer (2013)

01 July 2013

Made in 1998 and discovered after Cantor’s death in 2013, 'If I Just Turn and Run' is an anomaly in Cantor’s body of work.