Phoneme Frolics

In 1978, Northwestern University film professor Dana Hodgdon created an experimental film based on a phonetic alphabet. He recruited 45 students and faculty members to join him in speaking a single phoneme, which he filmed on 16mm color film. Each phoneme had an example that was an ideological loaded term: revolution, theory, language, Marx, Brecht, and so on. Then, using an optical printer, he excerpted the phonemes and edited them into words and sentences.

• Dana HodgdonDirector

• Ray NarducyCast
• Ellen SeiterCast
• Laurie KaronCast
• Kim LaughlinCast
• Rich ChristianCast
• Flanagan LogginsCast
• Dana HodgdonCast
• Kelly CelmerCast
• Merilee WeissCast
• Fred NuccioCast
• Laura BukeleyCast
• Gina MarchettiCast