Antonia recently turned me on to Cecelia Condit’s amazing New Wave cannibal opera from 1983. Here’s some information I found at Metro Times about Possibly in Michigan …

Possibly In Michigan is an operatic fairytale about cannibalism in Middle America. A masked man stalks a woman through a shopping mall and follows her home. In the end, their roles are reversed when the heroine deposits a mysterious Hefty bag at the curb. Like Condit’s other video narratives, Possibly In Michigan shows bizarre events disrupting mundane lives. Combining the commonplace with the macabre, humor with the absurd, she constructs a world of divided reality. Music: Karen Skladany. With: Jill Sands, Karen Skladany, Bill Blume, Amy Krick, Jeff Chiplis. Editor: David Narosny. Sound Mixing: Joel Solloway. Special Effects: John Barak.

“Putting on femininity with a visual and narrative vengeance; Condit’s disconcerting irony and sweetly gruesome stories also ‘put-on’ and undo societal prescriptions and taboos regarding women’s options to subjugation by violence or the gaze, letting us see and hear what often remains hidden, behaving with impropriety.” —Patricia Mellencamp, “Uncanny Feminism: The Exquisite Corpses of Cecelia Condit,” Afterimage 14 (September 1986)

Here’s Condit’s visionary film…

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Lately it feels like we’re heading back into some kind of full on Cold War II with Russia or WWIII with Russia or some slimy partnership with Putin involving Russian mobsters, bad debts, shirtless badminton, a vodka haze, a Volga fog, some leaked emails and a pizzagate golden shower.

Whatever the future holds between our two bonkers governments it’s important to remember that the Russian people are not Vladimir Putin. And while he’s a KGB vampire the people and their culture have given the world some of its greatest gifts including this amazing take on A.A. Milne’s classic character, Winnie the Pooh. Shout out to Phoenix Sun Marino-Ramer for turning me on to these beautiful cartoons…

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