The Adventures of a Nurse (Parts I and II)

Eleanor Antin 

1976, 65 min, color, sound

Part I: The artist, in the role of a nurse, fantasizes on romantic themes, using a set of foot-high, hand-painted paper dolls as actors. A fantasy within a fantasy. The "Nurse Eleanor" paper doll performs as a surrogate self for Nurse Eleanor Antin and is the much put-upon but brave heroine of a...

The Angel of Mercy

Eleanor Antin 

1977-81, 64 min, color, sound

First performed live in 1977, this the only one of Antin's live performances to be prepared for video. "Eleanor Nightingale" leaves the silken prison of her Victorian home and goes off to war. In the Crimea she engages with the political issues raised by class and sex inequities, military injustice, peace and war.

The Nurse and the Hijackers

Eleanor Antin 

1977, 75 min, color, sound

Antin employs the structure of a popular movie genre as an armature for her continuing theater of ideas in this feature-length, narrative videotape. Using hand-painted dolls, who display more than a coincidental resemblance to figures in the art world, Antin recounts the hijacking of "Nurse Eleanor's" plane on the way to St. Tropez