The Child

October 1, 2009
Stacey Mason

What is the relationship between images, words, and narrative?

Antione Bardou-Jacquet’s The Child raises these questions and more. This short film uses words as images to provide background scenes, portray moving vehicles, and even act as characters (oh the puns!). The narrative action of the piece is actually conveyed by the combination of these words, diaglogue, and mise en scène.

It might be interesting to do a Lacanian reading of the piece, examining the relationship between the word-images as signifiers, the signifieds conveyed through filmic aspects of the piece (e.g. sound, dialogue, etc) and how the words convey meaning through their role as images.

It’s a very interesting piece; definitely worth watching a couple of times to catch some of the words you missed the first time.=

(Thanks again, Jill Walker Rettberg!)

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