Rear Screen Projections
E443922
"Rear Screen Projections" is a photographic series by Cindy Sherman in which she stages herself against cinematic backdrops to explore identity, artifice, and the constructed nature of female representation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rear Screen Projections canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4482641 — 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: Rear Screen Projections Context triple: [Cindy Sherman, notableWork, Rear Screen Projections]
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A.
Regnier Extreme Screen Theatre
Regnier Extreme Screen Theatre is a large-format cinema venue located within Kansas City’s historic Union Station, known for immersive movie and educational film presentations.
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B.
Circle-Vision 360° theater
Circle-Vision 360° theater is an immersive film presentation format that surrounds audiences with a 360-degree panoramic screen for an all-encompassing viewing experience.
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C.
Super Technirama 70
Super Technirama 70 is a widescreen 70mm film format developed in the late 1950s that provided high-resolution, large-format projection for epic motion pictures.
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D.
DLP technology
DLP technology is a digital display and projection system that uses microscopic mirrors to modulate light and create high-quality images in projectors and related devices.
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E.
VistaVision
VistaVision is a high-resolution widescreen motion picture format developed by Paramount Pictures in the 1950s that runs 35mm film horizontally to achieve finer image quality.
- 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: Rear Screen Projections Target entity description: "Rear Screen Projections" is a photographic series by Cindy Sherman in which she stages herself against cinematic backdrops to explore identity, artifice, and the constructed nature of female representation.
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A.
Regnier Extreme Screen Theatre
Regnier Extreme Screen Theatre is a large-format cinema venue located within Kansas City’s historic Union Station, known for immersive movie and educational film presentations.
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B.
Circle-Vision 360° theater
Circle-Vision 360° theater is an immersive film presentation format that surrounds audiences with a 360-degree panoramic screen for an all-encompassing viewing experience.
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C.
Super Technirama 70
Super Technirama 70 is a widescreen 70mm film format developed in the late 1950s that provided high-resolution, large-format projection for epic motion pictures.
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D.
DLP technology
DLP technology is a digital display and projection system that uses microscopic mirrors to modulate light and create high-quality images in projectors and related devices.
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E.
VistaVision
VistaVision is a high-resolution widescreen motion picture format developed by Paramount Pictures in the 1950s that runs 35mm film horizontally to achieve finer image quality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
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photographic series ⓘ |
| artForm | photography ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Cindy Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creatorRole |
director of staged scenes
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photographer ⓘ |
| depicts |
cinematic backdrops
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staged scenes ⓘ women ⓘ |
| explores |
cinematic visual language
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female representation in media ⓘ illusion and reality in photography ⓘ performance of identity ⓘ stereotypical femininity ⓘ |
| genre |
conceptual photography
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fine art photography ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
contemporary photographic practice
ⓘ
discourse on gender and representation in art ⓘ |
| hasPart | individual photographic prints ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cinema
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constructed femininity ⓘ role-playing ⓘ spectatorship ⓘ |
| inSeriesWith |
Centerfolds
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Untitled Film Stills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | visual ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
artifice
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cinematic stereotypes ⓘ constructed nature of representation ⓘ female identity ⓘ self-portraiture ⓘ |
| movement |
feminist art
ⓘ
postmodern art ⓘ |
| notableFor |
appropriation of film aesthetics
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artist playing multiple roles ⓘ critical examination of the gaze ⓘ use of cinematic lighting and framing ⓘ |
| partOf | Cindy Sherman’s body of work ⓘ |
| technique |
self-portrait performance
ⓘ
staged photography ⓘ use of rear screen projection ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
color photography
ⓘ
photographic print ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Rear Screen Projections Description of subject: "Rear Screen Projections" is a photographic series by Cindy Sherman in which she stages herself against cinematic backdrops to explore identity, artifice, and the constructed nature of female representation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.