Phoneme Frolics

Phoneme Frolics — Plot

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.

• Release date
• November 30, 1978
• Runtime
• 10 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Dana Hodgdon

Phoneme Frolics — Cast

R

Ray Narducy

E

Ellen Seiter

L

Laurie Karon

K

Kim Laughlin

R

Rich Christian

F

Flanagan Loggins Dana Hodgdon

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Kelly Celmer