Film·1978·10m

Phoneme Frolics

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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.

Directed by Dana Hodgdon

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12 credited

Ray Narducy
Ray Narducy
Ellen Seiter
Ellen Seiter
Laurie Karon
Laurie Karon
Kim Laughlin
Kim Laughlin
Rich Christian
Rich Christian
Flanagan Loggins
Flanagan Loggins
Dana Hodgdon
Dana Hodgdon
Kelly Celmer
Kelly Celmer
Merilee Weiss
Merilee Weiss
Fred Nuccio
Fred Nuccio
Laura Bukeley
Laura Bukeley
Gina Marchetti
Gina Marchetti

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