[Frameworks] Experimental films with bodily sounds

[Sarah Bliss]

Gabriele,

You might be interested in a work of mine:

Transit(ive)  HD video created from 16mm projection performance with digital sound, recorded on digital video. 06:36.  2017. 

A video document of death, loss and relation that queries the ontology of objects (human bodies “dead” and “living", machines, film, video, artifacts) and their communication with each other. Transit(ive) records an encounter between myself and that-which-my-father-had-become a week after his death. Made by shooting a digital video of my embodied encounter with a constellation of interrelating objects: the digital audio recording I’d made of my father’s dying breath; clear 16mm celluloid leader; light moving from a 16mm film projector’s bulb through the leader that thread past the lens and then onto a wall; my own body; the projector lens I was manipulating; and the DSLR camera that reinterpreted the artifacts of light and sound. The physical manipulation of the lens of the projector connects the fleshly body to the body of light through the body of film. My fingers, no longer able to caress his face, caressed the lens.

https://vimeo.com/248777230 <https://vimeo.com/248777230>
pw: Breath

Sarah Bliss
http://www.SarahBlissArt.com

> On Jan 6, 2023, at 1:00 PM, frameworks-request at film-gallery.org wrote:
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> From: Gabriele Jutz <gabriele.jutz at uni-ak.ac.at <mailto:gabriele.jutz at uni-ak.ac.at>>
> Subject: [Frameworks] Experimental films with bodily sounds
> Date: January 6, 2023 at 9:48:28 AM EST
> To: <frameworks at film-gallery.org <mailto:frameworks at film-gallery.org>>
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> Hello Frameworkers,
> I’m preparing an academic article on experimental films with soundtracks that have their source in the human body, that is, primarily non-linguistic bodily sounds (or a more “primitive” form of language).
> Valie Export’s performance video i turn over the pictures of my voice in my head (2009)
> shows a close up-of the artist’s larynx from the inside out, while she strenuously reflects on the relevance of the voice (https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/1765/ <https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/1765/>).
> The soundtrack of Daichi Saito’s earthearthearth (2021) consists of an 
> improvisation by saxophonist Jason Sharp, in which his heartbeat and breathing play a prominent role. 
> Purely auditory examples (though without video – I am searching for films with image and sound tracks) are the sound poems of Henri Chopin. In Mes bronches (1968), for instance, he swallowed small microphones in order to record his bronchial cavities (https://on-air.caricomassimo.org/en/airchive/mes-bronches <https://on-air.caricomassimo.org/en/airchive/mes-bronches>). 
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> I wonder if anyone here could suggest more experimental films whose soundtracks involve the artist’s physical/bodily presence as a central element? Any suggestion will be appreciated. 
> Best,
> Gabriele Jutz
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