What about a voice that is so distorted one cannot say what gender it is. A voice that "disturbs" the difference.
I have godforsaken pages on the first utterances in Luther Price's *Clown*. They are incoherent. And is this a man speaking, or what? Does the question make sense? Ok, I'm going. On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Gene Youngblood <[email protected]> wrote: > Cecelia Condit and Vanalyne Green > > > On November 10, 2017 at 3:05:47 PM, mary billyou ([email protected]) > wrote: > > 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 < > [email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> > > > -- > > > > > > www.marybillyou.com > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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