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Shorts 2: Artistic Visions – Dysfluency Circuit
August 31, 2024 @ 4:00 pm – 4:06 pm EDT
Human speech originates in neurological pathways deep within the brain, linking motor control centers to muscles and airways resulting in spoken language. Utilizing neural mapping models, scans of decomposing nitrate film, and bare electrical signals from analog video equipment as source material, DYSFLUENCY CIRCUIT posits a neurological landscape of the stutterer, an internal physicality constantly at odds with the ableist urgency of everyday conversation and the capitalist economy.
2024 | 6 mins | US | B&W | 🍊🏆 | Art, Experimental
The filmmaker is expected to be present at this screening for a post-film discussion.
Screening in Theater #2
About the Filmmaker
Dave Rodriguez (he/him) is an audiovisual archivist, filmmaker, and curator originally from Miami, FL. His single-channel video, 16mm film, and live expanded cinema work has been screened/performed in festivals and galleries across North America, Europe, and South America including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], FLEX Film/Video Festival, Cosmic Rays, Mono No Aware, Strangloscope, FONLAD, Onion City Film Festival, Odds & Ends Experimental Film Festival, the Florida Film Festival, and others. He currently works as a librarian at Florida State University.
Director’s Statement
I am a life-long stutterer who has grown up with and continues to see representations of verbal disability in popular media across a wide, mostly negative, spectrum. Stuttering is viewed as abject and deviant, or something to be mocked and pitied. The stutterer is culturally assumed to be clumsy, frantic, or unintelligent–an anomaly within social and economic systems that assume and rely upon continuous consumption. With this short film I am interested in exploring the neurological and physical aspects of dysfluency and responding to my own bodily experiences as a stutterer. It speaks to both the internalized tension I feel in conforming to ableist expectations and the liberating potential of true verbal diversity.