Voices in Longitude and Latitude: A Video Installation by Marnina and Noam Gonick - Softcover

Marina Gonick; Noam Gonick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1894518705 ISBN 13: 9781894518703

Publisher: Msvu Art Gallery, 2014

Synopsis

Voices in Longitude and Latitude is a video installation about the aspirations of teen-aged girls in four communities across Canada Inuit in Kugluktuk, Nunavut; trans-gender in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Jewish in Toronto, Ontario; and Congolese, Rwandan, Ethiopian and Sudanese immigrants in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The girls, aged 13 to 23, appear in a 17-minute, four-screen projection. Shot on location, the video and audio components masterfully combine landscape and urban imagery with cinema verité-style footage and studio interviews with the girls. Voices represents the first collaboration between siblings Noam Gonick, the renowned Winnipeg filmmaker, and Dr. Marnina Gonick, Canada Research Chair in Gender at Mount Saint Vincent University. Their joint work provides insight into the question of how audio-visual media can open new possibilities, questions and ways of knowing in social research.

About this title

About the Author:

Noam Gonick is a Canadian filmmaker and artist. His films include Hey, Happy!, Stryker, and Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight. His work frequently deals with themes of homosexuality, social exclusion, dystopia and utopia.Marina Gonick is the author of numerous books and articles notably Between Femininities: Ambivalence, Identity and the Education of Girls (SUNY Press, 2003).

About this edition

• Publisher: Msvu Art Gallery
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1894518705
• ISBN 13: 9781894518703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32