Collection / Digital Speech by Peter Rose




USA, 1984, 13 minutes
Colour, Sound, Video

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Digital Speech uses a traveler's anecdote, a perverse variant of a classic Zen parable, as a vehicle for an exploration of language, thought and gesture. The tape plays with the nature of narrative, with ways of telling, performing and illustrating, and uses nonsense language, scat singing and video rescan for comic comment.
Awards and Exhibition: Festival Award, Three Rivers Arts Festival; Athens Award, Athens Video Festival; Broadcast on PBS in NY, Boston and LA.

Themes: Language & text