October 2009
12 posts
“I’ve been losing my words”
– Immersion
Directed by Robyn Woolston and Written by Reina Yaidoo
WatchImmersion is a short creative documentary about endangered languages.
When I first conceived to write this film I considered straigtforward interviews with the relevant participants, linguists, speakers of the endangered language etc. This would have been an excellent concept but I felt the subject could be dealt with more purposefully using the most individual aspect.
Language
Language is...
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DOMINANT LANGUAGE : the next time I see her there's going to be a misunderstanding
PASSENGER: If you hadn't interrupted me you would have heard by now how far she fell, when she fell, and for whom she fell. Imagine a whole world vision, concepts in oblivion.....
DOMINANT LANGUAGE: They say a cemetery is a place filled with irreplaceable people
PASSENGER: True...
“…..retraced my steps”
“I’ve searched in the usual places.”
Unesco's Audiovisual E-Platform
One of the last things I added to the script before sending it off was that all the images on screen were rich and saturated. I remember being asked what all that was about and I said “Well languages are…..colourful.” Robyn probably thought I was crazy but nevertheless that detail is part of the film. Of course visually colours bring mood and vibrancy to an image and the same can...
The Foundation of Endangered Languages
Let me just start off by giving a big thank you to Christopher Moseley at The Foundation for Endangered Languages who is doing a piece on the film in their newsletter which comes out in December. One of the things I would like the film to do is to raise awareness for endangered languages. Film is an excellent medium for this. Over the coming months I’m going to try to promote it using a variety of...
“Sometimes I dream in many languages at once”