Video

Waiting For Lancelot

Lisa Steele

1976, 78:56 minutes, B&W, English

TAPECODE 130.18

"In this tape I wanted to construct a fictional narrative and also to tell a 'story' with visual images. Inspired by, more than based on, the King Arthur-Lancelot-Guinevere legend, this seven-part tape tells the story of a woman existing within both marriage and an 'affair,' both male-defined confines to her. Seen from her own viewpoint, she is a sleeper waking to a world almost totally inhabited by insects. She sees everything in extreme close-up, describing her life, the movement of the insects, sexual experiences, and finally her own death in the same microscopic detail. Throughout the tape, I tried to maintain a visual silence; that is, the images may change frequently but movement within each frame is kept to a minimum." -L.S.

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Critical Writing

Video In Canada: In Search of Authority
by Renee Baert. From Sea to Shining Sea, 1986. Toronto: The Power Plant, 1986.
Lisa Steele
by Dot Tuer. Parachute, Spring 1985, no. 38.
"Waiting For Lancelot" by Lisa Steele
by Claire Gravel. Circuits Video/Art Magazine, Winter 1981, no. 1.
Video is not television, Performance is not theatre
by Martha Fleming and Douglas Durand. Body Politic, June 1980, no. 64.
This Time Don't Call it the Boob Tube
by Jay Scott. The Globe and Mail, Jan. 31, 1978.
Vidéo: regard introspectif: Toronto Video: Looking Inward
by Peggy Gale. vie des arts, Spring 1977, v. 21, no. 86.