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Phoneme Frolics

Nov 30, 1978 · 10m
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In 1978, Northwestern University film professor Dana Hodgdon created an experimental film based on a phonetic alphabet. He recruited 45 students and faculty members to join him in speaking a single phoneme, which he filmed on 16mm color film. Each phoneme had an example that was an ideological loaded term: revolution, theory, language, Marx, Brecht, and so on. Then, using an optical printer, he excerpted the phonemes and edited them into words and sentences.

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Ray Narducy
Ellen Seiter
Laurie Karon
Kim Laughlin
Rich Christian
Flanagan Loggins
Dana Hodgdon
Kelly Celmer
Directed by Dana Hodgdon

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US
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