02 May - 16 June 2007
35 Heddon Street, London W1
The American artist T.J. Wilcox presents three separate films united under one title, A Fair Tale (Extended Mix), as well as six large-scale collages relating to the film’s protagonists. All three films are biographical collages which incorporate a mixture of found footage and original film, and continue the artist’s modernist investigation into the genres of narrative film.
The longest of the three films, A Fair Tale takes us on an enchanted journey through small-town America in the 1970s, a silent memory seen through a child’s eyes and narrated with short, clear subtitles. The other films in the exhibition trilogy, Sissi and The Jerry Hall Story, track the lives of two iconic women living in very different times - the Bavarian heroine Empress Elizabeth of Austria, and the iconic model who started her career after winning eight-hundred dollars in compensation after a car accident.