The History of Glamour

Before Theresa Duncan dug into a glass bowl of Benadryl and Tylenol PM to take her own life, she'd been a writer/filmmaker/gaming designer for girls. Duncan also spent the better part of 12 years as one half of a glamorous art world couple with her boyfriend, the equally talented multimedia artist Jeremy Blake.


As tragic stories go theirs is major (Gus Vant Sant and Bret Easton Ellis have a biopic in mind and are writing the screenplay). A week after 40-year-old Duncan's suicide in 2007, the naked body of 35-year-old Jeremy was found off the waters of Rockaway Beach.

Among the ambitious projects they realized was Duncan's wry, genius, loosely autobiographical The History of Glamour (2000), a 40-minute animated flick that showed in that year's Whitney Biennial. Blake served as co-illustrator and art director. I'm just absorbed and tickled by this vid:

Video: "The History of Glamour," by Theresa Duncan Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com