Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron (1992)

Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron is less a depiction of reality than an exploration of the implications of the mediation of Black history by film television magazines and newspapers Using her alter ego Kelly Gabron Smith fabricates a personal history of her emergence as an artist from whitemaledominated American history and American film history Smith collages images and bits of text from a scrapbook by Kelly Gabron that had been completed before the film was begun and provides female narration by Kelly Gabron that slowly but surely makes itself felt over the male narration about Kelly Gabron Chris Brown is the male voice The films barrage of image text and voice is repeated twice and is followed by a coda That most viewers see the second presentation of the imagery differently from the original presentation demonstrates one problem with trusting any media representation Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016