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[edit]Whispering Pines
[edit]The 10-part video series, Whispering Pines follows the protagonist's search for perfect health and peace through consumer objects. Cynthia, Moulton's intimately autobiographical, surreal, video alter-ego, interacts with appropriated new-age marginalia, prescription drugs, and beauty products in scenes that address the difficulties of self-discovery and fulfillment in a modern, consumerism-driven society. Moulton explains that she is not required to 'get into character' for Cynthia; Cynthia is always there. Moulton says of her alter-ego, "It's me in the bathroom; it's me worried about aging; it's me looking at a beauty magazine... We share a brain. I don't even think of her as a character. It's just me."[1] Through Moulton's narrative of self-discovery, Cynthia gains relief from the social pressures of her domestic products by using them in non-prescribed ways.[2] Parts of the Whispering Pines series have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg, Florida) and the New Museum.
Restless Leg Saga (2012)
[edit]Restless Leg Saga is a 7:24 minute-long film that follows Cynthia’s search for a cure for her restless leg syndrome. Like her other works, she attempts to find relief through pharmaceutical ads on television and in magazines.[3] Restless Leg Saga was displayed to the public at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2013.
MindPlace ThoughtStream (2014)
[edit]MindPlace Thoughtstream is a 12-minute-long film that follows the protagonist’s search for health and confrontation with the social expectations of female health.[4] The video focuses on Cynthia, Moulton’s kitschy alter-ego, who uses an appropriated New Age device to access the inside of her own mind. Cynthia, played by Moulton, deals with several stress-related ailments and searches for a cure through various New Age therapy devices including appropriated objects and pharmaceutical drugs claiming to offer a special cure marketed towards Cynthia’s demographic.[5] MindPlace ThoughtStream has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.
- ^ Beck, Graham T. (2012-10-01). "Focus: Shana Moulton". Frieze. No. 150. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
- ^ Holland, Faith; Watter, Seth Barry (Fall 2019). "FROM PICTURE TO ASTRAL PLANE: Shana Moulton's Whispering Pines". Millenium Film Journal (70): pp. 24+ – via Gale Academic Onefile.
{{cite journal}}:|pages=has extra text (help) - ^ "Electronic Arts Intermix: Restless Leg Saga, Shana Moulton". www.eai.org. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
- ^ "The All-Natural, Totally American, Completely Anxiety-Free Woman". www.flaunt.com. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
- ^ Connolly, Maeve (2013). "Televisual Objects: Props, Relics and Prosthetics". Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry (33): 66–77. doi:10.1086/672021. ISSN 1465-4253.