Private Property (Public Domain)
Michele Fleming, 1991, US, 16mm, 12'
In Private Property (Public Domain), Shellie Fleming explores the effects of postmodernism on her personal life. Just as we see in other films in this program, Fleming weaves a (new) narrative through disparate and fragmented texts without (intending to present) a clear narrative thread. Two voices speak simultaneously: one recites the Latin names of seashells, the other one words and phrases by Italo Calvino, Anaïs Nin, Sylvia Plath and James Baldwin, among others.
“My question was how to put meaning back… How to self-define in a time that had turned things to rubble and then created either unnecessary caution or superficial ‘copying’.” (Shellie Fleming)
