From the Archives of Modern Art poster
From the Archives of Modern Art poster

From the Archives of Modern Art

1987 18mMovie
ComedyDocumentaryMusic

In this work of documentary fiction, an archivist attempts to put together the "lost years" of Eleanor Antinova, the once-celebrated black ballerina of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, when she returned to her native America to eke out a meager living in vaudeville and early cinema. Eleanor Antin uses fictional characters, autobiography, and narrative to invent histories and explore what she calls "the slippery nature of the self".

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