Eleanor AntinCritiques

It's been a long time since I've thought about Eleanor Antin. I just remember coming across something by her every once in a while - perhaps in a poetry bk, perhaps in connection w/ performance. I always pd a little more attn when something of hers appeared b/c she seemed to have a special way of doing things.

The film is Antin’s “love letter” to her mother, a former actress in the Yiddish theater of Poland, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease at the time this film was created. Like the character Zevi in the film, Antin's mother yearned for the stages of Warsaw, but unlike him, she never made it to the big city. The film is also a love letter to the heyday of silent cinema, including a wonderful score performed by the legendary late silent film organist, Lee Erwin. (fonte: Milenstone Films)

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Performance artist Antin presents texts of four performance works which represent satirical visions of her central character Eleanora Antinova, a black American ballerina. Fiction and true-life experiences blend in an intriguing text which charts the protagonist's journey through a performer's life. -- Midwest Book Review