Subtitles

I've been experimenting and teaching myself how to do voice over and subtitles on my films as I think this next project may work well with one of these methods!!

What do I want my work to say?

This is the question I've been asked and after some thought and reflection to my earlier works I see amd feel it's about giving voice to women, to myself, to empower and recover women. I've started work on a piece about Womens experience and memory of 'being woman'. I've asked a selection of women from different backgrounds, age, class, race, sexuality and professions to write a piece of first hand experience/memory of being a woman, of what it means to be a woman. The words are written and sent to me anonymously. I will then film different women reading out these pieces writing. This is in the beginning stages so may well evolve amd change!

Dictionary definition: documentary

doc·u·men·ta·ry
[-men-tuh-ree]
- adjective 1. of or derived from documents 2. depicting an actual event, life story, etc. - noun, plural-ries 3. documentary film
- Related Forms    un·doc·u·men·ta·ry- adjective    sem·i·doc·u·men·ta·ry- adjective, noun    doc·u·men·tar·i·ly- adverb
[Origin: 1795–1805; document + -ary]

Kerry Tribe: Dead Star Light at Camden Arts Centre

Haven't been to an exhibition in a while so was pleased when I managed to get to Camden Arts Centre today to see the Kerry Tribe exhibition 'Dead Star'. A mixture of film, video, sound installation and very relevant to what I'm working on at present. The piece that most interested me and related to where I'm at with my practice at present is 'Dead Star Light shown together with HM'. the work is about memory and the piece is documentary in style, about a man (HM) Whom suffers amnesia. I'm particularly interested in peoples personal stories and memories at present and looking at using documentry type filming as art, I've been researching what makes a film become documentry and also I'm interested in truth and fiction and what the viewer chooses to believe, if an artist say's 'this is fact' does it become fact because it is a piece of art rather than a documentry... Must look up dictionary definition for 'documentry'.