Speakerman: The Boo

The story of an odd creature called the Speakerman, who served duty in a small mining village by sounding the siren/megaphone that is his head to tell the workers when it was time for lunch and to alert people in case of

The Stone Speakers

In present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, economically depressed towns turn themselves into tourist destinations in order to survive—deliberately forming their own cultural narratives. Centering on four different locations,

Speakers Cornered

Shot over several days in September 2006, when Singapore hosted the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings, Speakers Cornered captures the thwarted attempts of nonviolence activists to protest peacefu

Boxing Speakers

Speakers Corner

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

Speakers

Collective portrait of Argentina during 2023 through interviews that ask the same questions to people from different social classes, and between 1 and 100 years old. The piece is a remake of the film Talking Heads by Pol

The Last Speakers

N|u is a moribund language of the southern Kalahari, spoken by an ever diminishing group of elderly San people scattered across the region. It is also one of the oldest human languages initially declared extinct in 1974

What American English Sounds Like to Non-Speakers

For clarification: Many words spoken in the video are actual English words. When put together, however, the sentences make little to no sense. While many non-English speakers can pick out words they recognize, they still

Programmhinweise 2021

Half a century after La speakerine, rediscovered in 2018 at the Berlinale, Margarita Tsomou, co-editor of the feminist magazine Missy and professor of performing arts, revisits the practice of television advertising to a

The Gift of the Gab

A carefully arranged anthology of modern oratory, it ranges maliciously from Mr Lloyd George's mechanic passion to the mumbled, almost inaudible, 'Awfully nice', of the too British winner of a King's Cup Air Race.