Voices in Longitude and Latitude: A Video Installation by Marnina & Noam Gonick - Tapa blanda

This is a video installation project exploring the aspirations of teen-aged girls, providing insight into how audio-visual media can help social research. Voices in Longitude and Latitude is a video installation about the aspirations of teen-aged girls in four communities across Canada - Inuit in Kugluktuk, Nunavut; trans-gender in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Jewish in Toronto, Ontario; and Congolese, Rwandon, Ethiopian and Sudanese immigrants in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The girls, aged 13 to 23, appear in a 17-minute, four-screen projection. Shot on location, the video and audio components masterfully combine landscape and urban imagery with cinema verite-style footage and studio interviews with the girls. Voices represents the first collaboration between siblings Noam Gonick, the renowned Winnipeg filmmaker, and Dr. Marnina Gonick, Canada Research Chair in Gender at Mount Saint Vincent University. Their joint work provides insight into the question of how audio-visual media can open new possibilities, questions and ways of knowing in social research.

Noam Gonick is a Canadian filmmaker and artist. His films include Hey, Happy!, Stryker, and Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight. His work frequently deals with themes of homosexuality, social exclusion, dystopia and utopia.Marina Gonick is the author of numerous books and articles notably Between Femininities: Ambivalence, Identity and the Education of Girls (SUNY Press, 2003).