I Die of Sadness Crying For You
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 3655
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
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- Month
- October
- Year
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Nina Danino’s I Die of Sadness Crying for You results from over 10 years international research on la copla, a neglected Spanish song-form. The multi-layered 70 minute essay film draws on original analysis of songs catalogued at media archives in Gibraltar, selecting those with specific emotional registers. Danino organized and shot performances in Malaga, Cadiz, and London, to include new material from stars and her mother. Through developing an original script, and processes of filmic ‘inscription’, the artist activated her own autobiography to reclaim the figure of the ‘woman of copla’ as a highly original feminist model.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The core question was how to contribute to contemporary feminist film making by bringing together archival and autobiographical materials to invent ‘the woman of copla' as a non-ageist feminist reclamation of women’s voice and emotion. The project has significant relevance given discussions about states of heightened emotion in public culture and feminine and gendered experience - the latter has been Danino’s focus in the making of experimental film over thirty years._x000D_
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Copla is a form of Spanish lyrical song which powerfully communicates the profound sadness of woman. The aim was to engage with, and expand knowledge about, this highly reified cultural form by developing an essay film involving the artist, her mother and footage of specific characters within the history of copla. _x000D_
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The origin of this project, funded by Arts Council England, was Danino’s interest in the woman’s voice in cinema. Initial research began in 2004 with a Gibraltar Ministry of Culture grant, with the final film being made over 9 months in 2018 resulting in a 70 minute work incorporating 7 copla performances, and launched at the London Film Festival and the Seville European Film Festival (both 2019). Research included over ten years of international archival research on copla within a spectrum of the music of her autobiography, recording a copla lesson, shooting on location, and sound studio recordings of voiceover and mix. _x000D_
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The research demonstrated powerful registers of emotion which resonate across cultures. By giving time to entire songs (sung by women who are not defeated or narcissistic) and also conveying the art of emotion in song itself, this project demonstrated the capacity of sync for experimental film. Another finding was that voice over could evoke the discovery of self thus putting emphasis on processes of inscription.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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