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The Telephone Eulogies

🎞️ Movie 19 min CA
2008

Spoken in 12 languages, 'The Telephone Eulogies' is a living experiment on film that combines a children's game of broken telephone, a self-penned eulogy and a trans-cultural cast of translators, performers and language enthusiasts. The film follows the eulogic narrative as it snakes its way through 12 languages and 21 translations, ultimately shedding layers of the original message as it is transformed by miscommunication, misunderstanding, mis-perception and misnomer. Ultimately, the message suffers a slow death by interpretation while continually giving birth to new possible meanings.

Cast

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Fajer Al-Kaisi
Arabic speaker
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Martin Belanger
French speaker
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Jo-Anne Bryan
ASL speaker
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Ilona Elkin
Finnish speaker
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Aimee Lee
Mandarin speaker
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Brian Lee
Russian speaker
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Fung Ying Man
German speaker
Patricia McKenzie
Patricia McKenzie
English speaker
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Prasad Ananda Pathanjali
Tamil speaker
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Tekahionhake Peters
Mohawk speaker