Jenn Ruff
Featuring editing by Grad Film professor Jenn Ruff, The Listening Takes/Manal Issa, 2024, will be showing at PARTICIPANT INC. in Tribeca through January 19th, 2025.
Created by Elizabeth Subrin, this immersive multi-channel video and sound installation expands on her experimental cinematic recreation of a controversial 1983 television interview with the late French actress Maria Schneider. Actors Manal Issa, Aïssa Maïga, and Isabel Sandoval play the late Schneider in three distinct reenactments, reinterpreted to highlight Schneider’s prescient commentary on the patriarchal nature of the film industry. Suspended in time and space, the installation deploys new footage and strategies to produce a collective, cross-historical portrait of actresses reckoning with consent, representation, and trauma.
The Listening Takes expands on Subrin’s 2022 cinematic recreation of a controversial 1983 television interview with the late French actress Maria Schneider in which actors Manal Issa, Aïssa Maïga, and Isabel Sandoval play Schneider in three distinct reenactments, reinterpreted to highlight Schneider’s prescient confrontation with the patriarchal structure of the film industry. The three-channel installation, suspended in time and space, deploys new film footage and sonic strategies to produce a collective, cross-historical, intersectional portrait of actresses reckoning with consent, representation, and trauma.
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