DISEMBODIED VOICES – THE VOICE OVER AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Voice-over technique in cinema and video embodies the narrator’s power over the image and what it stands for. The voice-over parallels the image, endorses it. Traditional voice-overs are embedded; they represent an authority. Disembodied Voices combines four videos based on inter-textual procedures. Here, voice-over is used in a rather detached, idiosyncratic manner taking full advantage of the poetic irony between language and image, sight and sound.

Program:
small lies, Big Truth
Shelly Silver, 1999 , 18’48”, colour, English spoken.
Proof of Life
Herman Asselberghs, 2005, 30’05”, colour, English spoken.
The Mendi
Steve Reinke, 2006, 9’18”, colour, English spoken.
The Blob
Gert Verhoeven, 2001, 20’55”, colour, English spoken.

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