This video essay explores the different ways we can think through feminism through Sorry, Wrong Number (1945).

 

The formal parameters are a response to Dis/Re/Orienting Cinematic Language: Barbara Zecchi’s Feminist Mechanisms, a feminist citational exercise from the Ways of Doing Collective.

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Published in 2024 in a special issue of In Media Res, Hollywood Film Style and the Production Code, edited by Tom Brown.

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Cited in the BFI / Sight & Sound Best Video Essays of 2024: "Less than two minutes long, this piece makes a striking impact through dynamic use of text and repetition, creating bold visual compositions against a layered soundtrack of dialogue and atmospheric original music by _HEAVYLEG."

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CREDITS

Made by Alison Peirse

Original soundtrack by _HEAVYLEG

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