The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times

2020 47 min

Overview

The Human Voice is a contemporary adaptation of the 1928 stage play by Jean Cocteau, and "La Voix Humaine," the 1958 chamber opera by Francis Poulenc. In a radically new production The Human Voice presents a flip of gender, and a metaphor of global pandemic. Now in English, Isaiah Bell sings to his male lover, and into the abyss of COVID. In a Zoom call impaired by lag and freeze and dropped signals, technology is once again enemy to intimacy. The agony of failed love is heightened by the necessity of distance, by the anaesthetic of the machine.

Genres

Music

Production Countries

Canada

Spoken Languages

English en

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Cast

Isaiah Bell

The Man

Crew

Francis Poulenc

Music

Isaiah Bell

Writer

Chris Randle

Cinematography

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