I believe Jane is heard, only briefly, in one of Brakhage's few sync sound films, "The Stars Are Beautiful." Jane is the subject of Barbara Hammer's student film "Jane Brakhage," available from Canyon, and she does the narration for that.
Also see Chick Strand's film "Soft Fiction." Andy Ditzler Founder and curator, Film Love: www.filmlove.org Co-founder, John Q collective: www.johnq.org Fall 2017: Film Love presents The American Music Show retrospective <http://www.frequentsmallmeals.com/AmericanMusicShow_Retrospective.htm> On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Chuck Kleinhans <chuck...@northwestern.edu> wrote: > I agree with others that many experimental works by women use a woman’s > voice or voices. > > It might be useful to recall that what was often novel in women’s films in > the 60s-70s era was dealing with a narrator or in documentary experts or > witnesses who were women. We might connect this with changing conditions > and technologies of production that made synch sound recording cheaper and > more accessible for artisan filmmaking. as well as women artists having a > special interest in women saying things as well as looking at things. The > modes of silent, sound, and synch sound in experimental film also play a > part. For example, we see a lot of Jane Brakhage in her husband’s work, > but do we ever hear her? > > I remember after a screening of a 90 minute early feminist film of the > late sixties, one of my feminist friends remarking about the guys > attending, “I’ll be that’s the first time most of them listened to women > talking for so long and not leaving or interrupting them.” > > Chuck Kleinhans > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >
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