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

[mary billyou]

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 <adlevy at 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
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