my movie "The Wonder of It All" <https://vimeo.com/50904896>
and "ours be the tossing" <https://vimeo.com/15333125> PS I love "Crowdog" by Vanessa Renwick and "Dirty Fingernails" by Sarah Kennedy and "Hair Piece" by Ayoka Chenzira. There's also a bunch by Martha Rosler: "A Budding Gourmet," "How Do We Know What Home Looks Like?," and one of the best: "Martha Rosler Reads Vogue" MM Serra's "Enduring Ornament" Some of Sabine Gruffat's recent work has her voice – "Speculation Nation" Shelly Silver's work On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Ann Deborah Levy <adl...@resonantimages.com> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > My 16mm films all used voiceover with women’s voices prominent. The most > ambitious, and definitely off the radar, is: > > WATERSCAPE: ILLUSIONS, 52 minutes, an essay film that meditates on > illusion and reality in both myth making and filmmaking in the context of > shooting a film on a “wilderness” lake with swans. The principal voices > are all women: the filmmaker whose shooting diary provides narration of > events and thoughts, a scholar on swan symbolism, and three young girls > trading fairy tales and a poem. If you would like a link, please contact > me off list. > > > Other films with women in voiceover that come to mind, but in no way > represent a comprehensive list are: > > Marguerite Duras films: especially INDIA SONG and her short film CESAREE > with a woman’s voice describing the ruined city of Cesaree (Caesarea) over > images of the Tuileries and Paris. > > > Some films preserved by the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of NYWIFT: > > MAKE OUT, 1970, a narrative short showing a couple in a romantic moment > with a woman’s voice expressing what she is feeling. The film made by the > Newsreel Collective was conceived by Geri Ashur, who co-directed, (with > Peter Schlaifer), the filming of the actors. The voice-over script was > created collectively by Ashur, Andrea Eagan, Marcia Salo Rizzi, Deborah > Shaffer and a few other women, and was taken from thetranscript of their > "conscious-raising group" discussions. > > SISTERS!, 1973, Barbara Hammer, director, with the voices of Hammer and > Kate Millet. The film begins with a woman’s voice declaring: “I had a > dream of women where men used to be: building, working, growing strong, > building their bodies into strength for self-defense.” This film collage is > a celebration of lesbians. > > ALL WOMEN ARE EQUAL, Marguerite Paris. This may be a stretch because it’s > a documentary about a male to female transvestite, Paula, whose voice taken > from an interview out of synch with filmed images of her in her apartment. > > > And one more addition: > HAIR PIECE, A FILM FOR NAPPY-HEADED PEOPLE, 1985, Ayoka Chenzira, > director, an animated film about Black women coping with expectations about > their hairstyles. (available through Women Make Movies) > > > ANN > > Ann Deborah Levy > filmmaker: www.resonantimages.com > and > Co-Chair, Women’s Film Preservation Fund of NYWIFT: > www.womensfilmpreservationfund.org > > > On Nov 2, 2017, at 9:42 AM, Ben Ogrodnik wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am requesting some film suggestions for a list of experimental, > independent, and/or feminist-leaning films that contain a woman -- > or multiple women -- providing voice-over narration to the images. > > The works can be from any era, in any format: documentary, > animation, fiction, found-footage, anthropological, installation- > based, etc. > > Some well-known examples of this tradition would be: Laura Mulvey > and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx, 1977; Michelle Citron's > Daughter Rite, 1978; or Su Friedrich's Sink or Swim, 1990. > > Any examples of woman-voiced films that may be lesser known, or > made outside EuroAmerican settings, would be greatly appreciated as > well! > > Thanks so much. > > Sincerely, > Ben > > -- > Ben Ogrodnik > Department of Film Studies // History of Art and Architecture > University of Pittsburgh > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -- www.marybillyou.com
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