[Frameworks] experimental/feminist films with a woman's voice-over narration?

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jennifer reeder "white trash girl"  <https://vimeo.com/56508118>

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Chuck Kleinhans <chuckkle at 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
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