THE LANGUAGE OF RAGE (2024)
(Digital/2:56 mins/Colour/UK)
This video essay uses multiple languages and horror films from around the world to explore not only what rage looks like on screen, but also why, as women, we might feel the need to rage.
Conceptualised and first draft completed at the Videographic Methods and Practices: Embodying the Video Essay workshop, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA, July 2023.
Premiered at Cinemateket, Oslo, Norway, for the Norwegian Federation of Film Societies, October 2023
Final version published in Spanish and English in the special issue 'Right to Rage: Subjectivity and Activism', edited by Barbara Zecchi and Diana Fernández Romero, in Teknokultura: Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements (2024).
Soundtrack available to download on bandcamp
CREDITS
Made by Alison Peirse
Original soundtrack by _HEAVYLEG
Lead Guitar by Richard Hadley, singer/guitarist in State of Error