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Marvelous Discourse

Uses improvisation, music and images to explore the gendered, bodily experience of language.
Aug 8, 2009 · 21m
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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.

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CAST

Ian W. Hill
Narrator
David Finkelstein
Narrator
Agnes De Garron
Performer
Directed by David Finkelstein

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Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
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Production
Lake Ivan Performance Group
Country
US
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