So To Speak is structured as a tour of the house and grounds of language. Jacqueline Goss works with many electronic media in order to give voice to understated or silenced stories of both real and imagined women. In some of her videotapes, Goss uses her own natural speaking voice to offer up off-kilter interpretations of historical and fictional female characters which are crafted to fit into personal narratives. In other works, Goss reshapes found footage to let the characters speak for. As much cynical as it is informative, the film exposes the ambiguity of journalism that at once exposes and seductively advertises its information.
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Joan Nidzyn lives in Boston and teaches filmmaking at Massachusetts College of Art. Joan's work deals with issues of family history, the body and female identity. Her approach to filmmaking is experimental as she tries to express herself with a language that is primarily visual. Her films have been shown across the United States and in Israel and Chile. A short experimental documentary on the surprising conclusions drawn from research into patients who have had the two hemispheres of their brains surgically severed.