Year
2006
country of production
Canada
credits
Alexandra Gelis
kind of work
Video
English for Beginners
An experimental work dealing with dislocation, fragmentation lost of contact and the regaining of foreign speech in a foreign land.
The work articulates the difficult and comic experience of learning a new language.
Video arte que utiliza dislocación, fragmentación, perdida de contacto y la captación de un idioma extranjero en una tierra extranjera.
El trabajo articula la difícil y cómica experiencia de aprender un nuevo idioma.
Time: 2′ 32″
Format: video
Screening:
– Lugar a Dudas, Place of Doubts. Cali-Colombia. 2009- Tinto House. Toronto-Canada 2008
– Short List. Gladstone Hotel. Toronto-Canada 2008
– Experimenta Colombia, Electronic Art Festival in Colombia. Bogotá-Colombia, 2007
– Latin Film Festival in Vancouver. Vancouver-Canada, 2007
– aluCine TORONTO LATIN MEDIA FESTIVAL. Toronto- Canada 2006