Blickle Archive Series #20: Ellen Cantor

Ellen Cantor was an American artist. Cantor came to prominence in the early 1990s, garnering critical acclaim and notoriety both in London and New York—as part of a young generation of feminist artists exploring new modes of female representation. Cantor was known for combining pornography, politics, pop culture and the handmade in her paintings, drawings, sculptures, videos, and films.

21er Haus presents 3 of her works:

Madame Bovary’s Revenge, USA 1995, 17min
Barbie London, GB 2001, 16 min
Evokation of my Demon Sister, USA 2002, 5 min

Madame Bovary’s Revenge is the first video Ellen Cantor ever put together. In this short work, she borrows a number of excerpts from Louis Malles scandal film of 1958 "The Lovers" and intercuts these with explicit porno films of 1970s.
Evokation of my Demon Sister is a wild collage loaded with anxiety fantasies, supernatural powers, violence, pain, including Kenneth Angers experimental films and Brian de Palmas horror classic Carrie.