The UofR's On Film team presents a film screening night titled Voicing on Film featuring Rawane's Song (Mounira Al Solh, 2007, 7 min., video), (as if) beauty never ends (Jayce Salloum, 2002, 12. min., video), The Sea is a Stereo, part II: Paris Without a Sea (Mounira Al Solh, 2007-2008, 12 min., video), Broken Tongue (Mónica Savirón, 2013, 3 min., 16mm to digital), Now Eat My Script (Mounira Al Solh, 2014, 25 min., video), and The Chamber (Chantal Akerman, 1972, 11 min., 16mm to digital).

Formally, these works are organized around the possibilities of spoken or textual narration enlivening an otherwise minimal soundtrack. However together, they elaborate an idiosyncratic critique of the authority of the voiceover as material and political conquest, problematizing the narration of identity (or imperatives to do so) in politically fraught art markets, and restating the performative faculties of the camera in playfully inventive and wildly affecting ways.

[source: University of Rochester On Film screenings website, 2016-Feb-8]