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Title: MAN

Reference number: 13887

Date: 2016

Director: filmed by Maja Borg

Sponsor: The Swedish Film Institute and Creative Scotland

Production company: Maja Borg Filmproduktion, GID Films Ltd, Scotland

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 12.20 mins

Description: MAN is an expansion of gender and language, a journey of physical transformation through the wilderness of pregnancy echoed by the sole remaining recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice. The film is a truly experimental expression of form – hand-processed super 8mm film combined with watercolour-negative animation; timelapses of a pregnancy shot frame by frame, day by day; bookended by a series of self-portraits where the filmmaker is satirising her own use of particular attire, generally read as masculine, becoming revelatory when posed in the context of the pregnant body. [Synopsis taken from press kit on Borg's website, http://majaborgman.com/, last accessed 23/11/2021]

See also ref.13924 and ref. 8054 for other films by Maja Borg.

Catalogued from secondary sources including the artist's website. [https://majaborg.com, last accessed 19/10/21]

The film is a truly experimental expression of form – hand-processed super 8mm film combined with watercolour-negative animation; timelapses of a pregnancy shot frame by frame, day by day; bookended by a series of self-portraits where the filmmaker is satirising her own use of particular attire, generally read as masculine, becoming revelatory when posed in the context of the pregnant body.

For a decade Borg has been exploring the semantics of visual language in her work, experimented with form to push content beyond the limits of established thought. She uses the deconstruction of language to dismantle other systems – may they be political, sexual, economic or cultural. This is the second time she draws on the essay Craftsmanship by Virginia Woolf, this time to deconstruct gender identity during her own pregnancy. [Synopsis taken from press kit on Borg's website, http://majaborgman.com/, last accessed 23/11/2021]

Credits: [CREDITS
a film by MAJA BORG
produced together with RUTH REID
original score ELA ORLEANS
production design and on-set director RUTH PAXTON
portrait photography TOBIAS FELTUS
make-up and hair SARAH CAIRNCROSS
sound design and mix MARIO ADAMSON
colourist PER SJÖKVIST/ Filmlance International
online JONAS ERIKSSON / Filmlance International
graphic design JONAS HULT
Music
Gioacchino Rossini
Sonata N°4
Performed by Ensemble Explorations
Conducted by Roel Dieltiens
©harmonia mundi musique SAS, 2016
Archive
VIRGINIA WOOLF
‘Craftsmanship’
Words Fail Me, BBC 1937
Financial support from
THE SWEDISH FILM FILM INSTITUTE
Film Commissioner – Andreas Fock
Developed with financial assistance from
THE CREATIVE SCOTLAND NATIONAL LOTTERY FUND
Film Commissioner – Robbie Allen
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PRODUCTION DETAILS
Title:
MAN
Year of Completion:
2016
Genre:
Short, Experimental, Documentary
Running time:
12.20
Premiere:
Edinburgh International Film Festival June 2016
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1 Widescreen Cinema Standard
Sound Mix:
5.1
Language:
English
Country of origin:
Sweden & Scotland
Original Format:
Super 8mm & Stills (Various formats)
Colour:
Colour, Black & white
Screening Format:
DCP (both 24fps & 25fps available)
Producers:
Maja Borg & Ruth Reid
Film crew
Director:
Maja Borg
Producers:
Maja Borg & Ruth Reid
Composer:
Ela Orleans
On-set Director & set designer:
Ruth Paxton
Hair & Makeup:
Sarah Cairncross
Cinematography:
Maja Borg & Tobias Feltus
Animation & Editing:
Maja Borg
Sound Mix:
Mario Adamson
Production Companies
Maja Borg Filmproduktion, Sweden www.majaborg.com
GID Films Ltd, Scotland ]