The fifth week of features a video by Liza Sylvestre: Captioned: Twentieth Century (2018), which is available from Tuesday 4 May until Monday 10 May.

Captioned: Twentieth Century is a feature length, single-channel video interpretation of the 1934 screwball comedy Twentieth Century.
Artist Liza Sylvestre depends on closed captioning or other interpretive texts to have a complete understanding of films. In this video, the artist replaces the missing closed captioning in the original film with what she describes as “self-commentary”.
Sylvestre: “Sometimes I record what I think is happening, often I record my visual observations, and sometimes my mind wanders, and I record that as well.”
View here.
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Image description: A black and white film still depicts a group of white women in fancy ball gowns, they seem to be entering another room while laughing. There is a Black woman walking with them in a simple dress. The white woman in the center of the group looks back at a white man with a fancy tuxedo, he appears to be talking or laughing. Captions on the video image read: “Those dresses take up so much space.”.
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