Your native language and pronunciation can reveal your origins. By The Throat shows how voice, language, and pronunciation are still used worldwide to mark such boundaries. Artist duo Effi & Amir’s film introduces individuals navigating these borders of identification, including a young Iraqi talking about being on the streets of Bagdad learning to get through checkpoints run by ethnic militias during civil war. An Albanian call-centre agent is instructed to impersonate a German-Italian accent to sell fraudulent financial services to German clients. A Tibetan refugee is subjected to accent and dialect recognition software to determine wheter he is legitimately seeking asylum in Switzerland. Effi & Amir’s mix of filmed testemonies, found footage, YoTube videos, and medical imagery reveal the invisible borders we carry inside our mouths.
Practical information
Free admission
Film duration: 78 min
Screening start time: 19:00 pm
Credits
Courtesy the artists and Centre de l’Audiovisuel a Bruxelles. Produced by La Chose a Trois Jambes, in co-production with Centre de l’Audiovisuel a Bruxelles.