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

Fri Nov 10 23:47:28 UTC 2017

I was just thinking,why should it matter?  Chuck offers sociological
considerations, a history.  Let's have voices hitherto unheard or
interrupted.  But that's not it for me.  I think, when it's an
authoritative voice, it really hardly matters.  The lecture could as well
have been male.  On the other extreme, there are those voiceovers that
wouldn't really qualify as narration.  It becomes poetry.  Too much for the
guy in me.  I think what appeals to me is a woman's voice handling
something really difficult.

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 4:03 PM, mary billyou <mbillyou at gmail.com> wrote:

> my movie "The Wonder of It All" <https://vimeo.com/50904896>
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> and "ours be the tossing" <https://vimeo.com/15333125>
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> PS I love "Crowdog" by Vanessa Renwick and "Dirty Fingernails" by Sarah
> Kennedy and "Hair Piece" by Ayoka Chenzira.
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> 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"
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> MM Serra's "Enduring Ornament"
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> Some of Sabine Gruffat's recent work has her voice – "Speculation Nation"
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> Shelly Silver's work
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> 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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