Film Tag

Marianna Simnett’s The Needle & The Larynx premiered on Channel 4 on Friday, as a part of their Random Acts. Following a woman, played by Marianna, who gets her voice lowered by a surgeon, this short clip was inspired by Marianna’s “terrifying urge to rework into something other,” she explains. The four-minute and 17-second long clip is filmed as one continuous long shot in excruciating slow motion. The audience sees Marianna sitting within the surgeon's chair as she gets injected with botox, a procedure normally reserved for men whose voices stay high after puberty. Narrated by the surgeon and Marianna, the conversations and the accompanying music, written by Marianna and Lucinda Chua, reflect the intensity of the procedure which is happening,...