Untitled Film Stills

E443914

artwork photographic series

Untitled Film Stills is a landmark photographic series by Cindy Sherman in which she stages and photographs herself in cinematic, archetypal female roles to explore identity, gender, and representation.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Disambiguation Statements Elicitation Referenced by

All labels observed (8)

Label	Occurrences
Untitled Film Stills canonical	6
Untitled Film Still #13	1
Untitled Film Still #14	1
Untitled Film Still #21	1
Untitled Film Still #3	1
Untitled Film Still #48	1
Untitled Film Still #50	1
Untitled Film Still #6	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4482633 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Untitled Film Stills
Context triple: [Cindy Sherman, notableWork, Untitled Film Stills]

A. Other Pictures
"Other Pictures" is a photography series by British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge, known for its highly stylized, vividly colored, and cinematic images.
B. Images à la sauvette
Images à la sauvette is a seminal 1952 photography book by Henri Cartier-Bresson that helped define the concept of the “decisive moment” in street and documentary photography.
C. Celluloid
Celluloid is a lightweight, open-source media player for Linux that provides a simple GTK-based interface for the MPV playback engine.
D. Sketch Films
Sketch Films is a television production company best known for its work on the supernatural drama series "Sleepy Hollow."
E. Rocket Pictures
Rocket Pictures is a British film production company co-founded by Elton John, best known for producing projects related to his life and music, including the biographical musical film "Rocketman."
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Untitled Film Stills
Target entity description: Untitled Film Stills is a landmark photographic series by Cindy Sherman in which she stages and photographs herself in cinematic, archetypal female roles to explore identity, gender, and representation.

A. Other Pictures
"Other Pictures" is a photography series by British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge, known for its highly stylized, vividly colored, and cinematic images.
B. Images à la sauvette
Images à la sauvette is a seminal 1952 photography book by Henri Cartier-Bresson that helped define the concept of the “decisive moment” in street and documentary photography.
C. Celluloid
Celluloid is a lightweight, open-source media player for Linux that provides a simple GTK-based interface for the MPV playback engine.
D. Sketch Films
Sketch Films is a television production company best known for its work on the supernatural drama series "Sleepy Hollow."
E. Rocket Pictures
Rocket Pictures is a British film production company co-founded by Elton John, best known for producing projects related to his life and music, including the biographical musical film "Rocketman."
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	artwork ⓘ photographic series ⓘ
collection	Museum of Modern Art, New York ⓘ linked to: Museum of Modern Art
color	black and white ⓘ
completionDate	1980 ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
creator	Cindy Sherman ⓘ
depicts	archetypal female characters ⓘ black-and-white photographs ⓘ imaginary film scenes ⓘ
exhibitedAt	Centre Pompidou ⓘ Metropolitan Museum of Art ⓘ Museum of Modern Art, New York ⓘ linked to: Museum of Modern Art Tate Modern ⓘ
features	Cindy Sherman as model ⓘ
genre	conceptual photography ⓘ feminist art ⓘ self-portrait photography ⓘ
hasPart	Untitled Film Still #13 ⓘ linked to: Untitled Film Stills Untitled Film Still #14 ⓘ linked to: Untitled Film Stills Untitled Film Still #21 ⓘ linked to: Untitled Film Stills Untitled Film Still #3 ⓘ linked to: Untitled Film Stills Untitled Film Still #48 ⓘ linked to: Untitled Film Stills Untitled Film Still #50 ⓘ linked to: Untitled Film Stills Untitled Film Still #6 ⓘ linked to: Untitled Film Stills
hasSeriesOrdinality	early major series by Cindy Sherman ⓘ
inception	1977 ⓘ 1978 ⓘ
influenced	appropriation art ⓘ contemporary feminist photography ⓘ
influencedBy	B-movies ⓘ European art cinema ⓘ Hollywood cinema ⓘ linked to: Hollywood films film noir ⓘ
language	visual art ⓘ
locationOfCreation	New York City ⓘ
mainSubject	cinema ⓘ female identity ⓘ gender roles ⓘ representation of women in media ⓘ stereotypes ⓘ
medium	gelatin silver print ⓘ
movement	Pictures Generation ⓘ postmodern art ⓘ
notableFor	appropriation of cinematic tropes ⓘ critical examination of the male gaze ⓘ exploration of constructed identity ⓘ
numberOfWorks	69 ⓘ
publicationDate	1980 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited