a short film by Shirin Abu Shaqra (2010)
Music by Patricia Alessandrini and Justin Yang, with performances by Franziska Schroeder
Conversation with Changes
Other Short Film Projects
Elsie Shen Yi
The Yellow Ones are Mine
Music and sound mixed at the Muse en Circuit, Paris, 2013
This collaboration came out of our collective residency in Funchal, Madeira in 2012-13.
Rukiye Sahin
They think therefore I am
Music and sound mixed at the Sonic Arts Research Center, 2009
They Think, Therefore I Am is a response to the "headscarf debate" in Turkey. In 2008, the debate had become an explosive national issue, as the ruling party has attempted to repeal the law that forbids girls and women who cover their heads from attending school.
In the video, the artist is shot sitting down, facing the camera. Two sets of male hands alternately wrap a scarf around her head and tear it off, gestures that represent efforts to force women to be either "religious" or "secular." Finally, she stands and performs the same actions herself, but the sound and gesture are no longer synchronized: she puts on the scarf while declaring herself secular, or takes it off while declaring herself to be religious. The gradual process of de-synchronization between the gestures and the digitally processed utterances convey the desire to transcend the constraints of the current situation, in which a woman is not allowed to decide for herself.
Video Collaborations
David Webber
Video for Nachtgewächse
In 2019, video artist David Webber was commissioned by the Ensemble Parallax to create a video for Nachtgewächse, for a live performance for Parallax’s 2019 East Coast tour. It was premièred at National Sawdust, NYC in October 2019
Susanna Carlisle
Video for Arrangement in Gray and Black
With dance improvisations by Mary Anne Santos Newhall
This montage was created for an audiovisual competition in 2009.