Phoneme Frolics

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.

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

10 min

Cast:

Ray Narducy, Ellen Seiter, Laurie Karon

Quality:

HD

Director:

Dana Hodgdon

Release:

1978

Country:

United States

Rating:

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