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Possibly in Michigan
In a shopping mall, two women sing about their favourite items but are quickly pursued by a masked cannibal who is intent on forcing his way to their love. Back at home, the two turn the tables. Possibly in Michigan is an operatic fairy tale of cannibalism, desire, and dread in America.
Beauty meets the Beast in the surreal suburban landscape. Two women with a penchant for “violence and perfume” take revenge on their animal-masked male persecutor. In this contemporary rendering of gothic enchantment, the victim becomes the aggressor and the familiar becomes the fantastic.
Cecelia Condit reframes narrative conventions using black humour, sing-song dialogue, and ironically gruesome images. This comically grim story of dreamlike pursuit and sexual violence inverts traditional Freudian metaphors to impart a subversive voice to her heroines: “I bite the hand that feeds me.” Possibly in Michigan is a classic tale of psychosexual horror, but reimagined as an irreverent fantasy of the other.
Bio Cecelia Condit
Fusing humour and horror, the whimsical and the macabre, video artist Cecelia Condit (1947) uncovers dark fantasies of the subconscious beneath the surreal suburban landscape of Middle America. Condit’s elliptical narratives, often termed “feminist fairy tales”, put a subversive spin on the traditional mythologies of female representation and the psychologies of sexuality and violence.
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- This film was #62 in the “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025