The third week of features a video by Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos: April 4, 1980 (2018), which is available from Tuesday 20 April until Monday 26 April.

The speed of dialogue in most films and videos usually privileges hearing and sighted audiences. This often doesn’t leave enough space without dialogue to fit in audio description and enough time for captions to appear legibly on screen.
In Amalle Dublon & Constantina Zavitsanos’s video April 4, 1980, the screen is black, showing only captions. The audio speed is slowed; caption reading is primary.
The video ponders the mysteries of love and space-time. Vocoded narration states that “matter isn’t mass,” asking “what it is to fall in love when we can’t even fall through space-time?”
View here.
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Image description: A video still of a black screen hosts two lines of white captions at its bottom that read: “And what is it to fall in love when we can’t even fall through space-time?”.
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