From the Archives of Modern Art (movie)
- Production country: US
- Producer: Eleanor Antin
- Genre: Comedy, Documentary, Music
- Release date: 1/1/1987
- Run time: 31 min.
Movie description
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".