Lynn Hershman Leeson

Conceiving the Future: The Prescient Lynn Hershman Leeson – Filmmaker Magazine

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“There’s no question that Lynn Hershman Leeson is a prescient artist and filmmaker. Prescience is even a theme in her work, one she grapples with as a double-edged sword. Impossible to measure except in retrospect, it is a lonely quality to have in the present.

That gap between a pioneering woman’s work and the culture catching up to it is both her story as an artist and the subject of her first narrative feature, Conceiving Ada (1997). The production of Conceiving Ada is another example of Leeson’s doggedness… Leeson created “virtual sets”—“JPGs of bed and breakfast places that looked Victorian”—which she dropped into blue screen backgrounds…”