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Pulling Up Roots

Cecelia Condit · USA · Experimental / Poem · 8 min · 89K views

Directed by Cecelia Condit · Starring Cecelia Condit · 2015

In an abandoned housing estate in Western Ireland, an older woman confronts the lies that have taken root in her and moves through despair toward happiness.

A haunting, fairy-tale-like video poem on aging and trauma from a veteran video artist.

Filmed in an abandoned housing project in Western Ireland, a woman (played by Cecelia Condit) confronts lies that have "taken root" in her, making her life a "ruin". In the end, she moves through despair to a certain hap

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