TitleItalian Dreams
Artist
Carrie Mae Weems
(American, b. 1953)
Date2006
MediumDVD
DimensionsRun time: 10 minutes
Edition2 exhibition prints
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, November 12, 2014
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY. Courtesy of artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Object number2014.8
Label TextSet in Rome, Weems’ Italian Dreams largely takes place in Cinecittà, the studio of filmmaker Federico Fellini. The video is structured like a dream sequence in which a protagonist - at times played by Weems herself - moves through the grounds and halls of Cinecittà, where both erotic and platonic encounters unfold. Recurring throughout the video is a scene of a window that opens to a blue sky, dusted with falling snow. Beneath the window sits a woman at work, with her back to the camera, in what looks to be an artist's studio, embodying the surreal isolation and repetition of an artist’s life.
