Frames and Cages and Speeches

…experiments with frames and framing, cages and caging, speeches and speaking. It is a film ( a seven act ‘play’) which deals with the medium’s narration of us and our narration of it. Frames are developed according to the stories one believes in, Cages re-form experience into expression, and Speeches translate what we know into narration. An extension of work begun in the filmSyntax. – M.H.
Frames And Cages And Speeches watches, and comments on, itself, going deeper into the process of selection, memory and association than SYNTAX. It is also a stylistic advance. Haslanger shifts angles and isolates details of an urban intersection, while creating a distinctive vocabulary out of interspersed found footage, printed conjunctions and a quirky soundtrack. Though it’s difficult to crack her code the first time around, the fact is that this dense array is sufficiently compelling to warrant repeated viewings. Haslanger is a distinctively self-possessed and original talent.- J.Hoberman, The Village Voice, New York.