Richard Brody reviews the documentary “Ouvrir la Voix,” by Amande Gay, which addrs France’s stggle toward acknowledgg s multiculturalism through closp terviews wh twenty-four black French women.
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- AMANDE GAY : « LA FALE, CE N’T PAS QUE LA BLOGIE »
- AMANDE GAY RECLAIMS THE NARRATIVE "SPEAK UP"
- AMANDE GAY RECLAIMS THE NARRATIVE SPEAK UP
AMANDE GAY : « LA FALE, CE N’T PAS QUE LA BLOGIE »
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But Mor’s tweet about France’s soccer-stoked aterny remd me of a more recent film that addrs the untry’s stggle toward acknowledgg s multiculturalism through a visn of sorory: Amande Gay’s documentary “Ouvrir la Voix. ” (The tle, which means “openg the voice, ” is also a homonym for ouvrir la voie, “openg the path. “Ouvrir la Voix” is as radilly ank style as substance: nearly all of s two-hour nng time is filled wh terviews, done extreme closp, wh twenty-four black French women whose remarks Gay aniz thematilly to sixteen chapters.
AMANDE GAY RECLAIMS THE NARRATIVE "SPEAK UP"
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That is exactly what Gay has done wh “Ouvrir la Voix.
The film Speak Up (Ouvrir la voix French) by French filmmaker, scholar, and aofemist Amande Gay, will be shown at the IU Cema on Febary 21. To this effect, filmmaker Amande Gay’s work — her films, wrg, activism, and rearch — aims to center whens and lonize the md.
Traed soclogy, both France and Canada, Gay holds the cril tools to put nversatn different approach and methodologi to the analysis of the tersectn of race, genr, sexualy, and has had her own experience wh beg silenced. ” In the absence of fair reprentatn, Gay cid to create her own characters and took up wrg.
AMANDE GAY RECLAIMS THE NARRATIVE SPEAK UP
Eventually, Gay seized the mera and started workg on the documentary Speak Up 2013, supported by producer, edor, and sound engeer Enri rry on the project, Amande first met wh forty-five women, nductg prelimary terviews before selectg the twenty-four women we see on screen. That’s bee Gay wants you to s wh the women. Gay has also paved the way for wir exploratns of Aopean inti France and Belgium.
As a unterreactn, Gay ma sure to clu exprsns of spirualy and relign to also amplify femist Mlim voic.
From her own experience as a wrer who has also prefaced the French translatns of bell hooks’ books, Gay knows the importance of a practice based re. A meticulo artist, Amande Gay is also a rearcher who has voted her amic work to the nsequenc of lonial history, and more recently to ternatnal adoptn and race. This rearch has culmated her latt documentary, A Story of One’s Own, which Gay met wh French adopte, often racialized, who were born untri abroad.