"Matthew Buckingham: The Spirit and the Letter"

Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th-century paleofeminist author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women—and the mother of Mary Shelley—is the subject of this video, which features an actor in a period room (complete with crystal chandelier) who appears to walk across the ceiling as she declaims lines culled from Wollstonecraft's writings.