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Marvelous Discourse

"Uses improvisation, music and images to explore the gendered, bodily experience of language."

2009-08-08 en 21m
Language passes through the body, meaty, corporeal, and breathing. Do you adopt the stereotypically "male" strategy of verbally lunging at your opponent, trying to skewer him rhetorically, or do you adopt the "feminine" approach, like the Oracle of Delphi, and open your body to allow voices from the beyond to speak through you? "Marvelous Discourse" uses cave art, shadow puppets, and a visit to a caf? in the Israeli town of Endor, among many other images, to explore the gendered experience of language-in-the-body. The text for the video is completely improvised by the actors, as a spectacular example of language unfolding from an intuitive physicality.

Writer

Ian W. Hill

Editor

David Finkelstein

Visual Effects

David Finkelstein

Sound Designer

David Finkelstein

Writer

David Finkelstein

Director

David Finkelstein

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • Lake Ivan Performance Group