[Frameworks] Films with creative/alternative use of subtitles

[Robert S Withers]

If you can find them, check out Abigail Child’s recent experimental documentary features: Acts and Intermissions (2017)and Origin of the Species (2020). 
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>   1. Re: Films with creative/alternative use of subtitles
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>   2. New Link (Dominic Angerame)
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> From: Ekrem Serdar <ekrem at squeaky.org>
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Films with creative/alternative use of subtitles
> Date: December 7, 2023 at 1:04:59 PM EST
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> Hello,
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> You may be interested in some of the work included in Squeaky Wheel's current Fall/Winter series [Speaking in Foreign Language] <https://squeaky.org/event/speaking-in-foreign-language/> that take on translation/interpretation through subtitles including:
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> -Sharlene Bamboat feature film If From Every Tongue it Drips
> -Alex Dolores Salerno's El Dios Acostado 
> -Saif Aslaegh's 1991
> -Nadia Shibab's Echolocation 
> -Sky Hopinka's wawa 
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> There's overlaps and resonances also with artists use of captioning and audio descriptions that the series also takes on.
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> On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 6:21 PM Arindam Sen <sen.arindam.1986 at gmail.com <mailto:sen.arindam.1986 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Lagado by Werner Nekes (deliberately scrambled subtitles), Fatima’s Letter by Alia Syed (subtitles somewhat autonomous or rather de synchronised from the spoken word). 
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>> On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 at 20:37, Albert Alcoz <albertalcoz at gmail.com <mailto:albertalcoz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> Maybe you can check these videos by Peter Rose and John Smith:
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>>> Trump Talks Back (Peter Rose, 2020) 1 min 30 sec
>>> https://www.peterrosepicture.com/video-2001---2023.html
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>>> Covid Messages (John Smith, 2020) 22 min.
>>> https://johnsmithfilms.com/selected-works/covid-messages/
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>>> On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 7:08 PM jjmartinod <jjmartinod at protonmail.com <mailto:jjmartinod at protonmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> Hello everyone,
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>>>> Looking for films(mostly "experimental" documentaries) from the last 10 years that make creative use of subtitles. This can be fonts, positioning, or anything that may come to mind. 
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>>>> deeply appreciated!
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>>>> jaco
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> From: Dominic Angerame <dominic.angerame at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Frameworks] New Link
> Date: December 7, 2023 at 3:35:47 PM EST
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> A new Link for Film Diary #2—No Nothing Cinema
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