Dana Hodgdon

Dialectic Definitions

Dana seemingly records a fellow professor reading each word in an encyclopedia.

Window

The construction of a projected window in the basement.

Dialectic Discourse

A conceptual film about the limits of the frame

Reflexfilm/Familyfilm

A blend of home movie and structuralist film

Psycho Palindrome

Psycho, backwards and forwards

Phoneme Frolics

In 1978, Northwestern University film professor Dana Hodgdon created an experimental film based on a phonetic alphabet. He recruited 45 students and faculty members to join him in speaking a single phoneme, which he filmed on 16mm color film. Each phoneme had an example that was an ideological loaded term: revolution, theory, language, Marx, Brecht, and so on. Then, using an optical printer, he excerpted the phonemes and edited them into words and sentences.

Truthfully Speaking

A witty examination of the disjunction between the film's image and its soundtrack. Which voice belongs to which speaker? Each speaker makes certain claims about which voice is his. Later remarks contradict these claims and the viewer is left with a neat logical problem and an acute awareness of filmic illusion and structure.

My Movie

An acting and directing exercise gone wrong.