Playing records is something the women in this video undoubtedly did in their youth. Singles of the top hits of the day and the dreams, images and desires that went with them. Those were dream images that were serenaded and put into words by others. But, when the singles are played years later, the music is repeatedly interrupted both abruptly and roughly, the pick-up is kicked over or the hole is not in the middle so that the music no longer sounds as it once did. The articulation/visualisation of others is, however, also the key to one’s own desires and passions. To get to these desires, they also have to approach existing images in a different way and give words a new, personal interpretation in order to create an image of their own existence. In this way, the dreams of another and the experiences of another as well, can lead to hilarious views and to jokes and thus cause a change in perspective which relativizes one's own position. When, at the end, a woman sings along with a single, she becomes the interpreter of the song, whereby she makes the desires of which she sings, her own desires. Then too, the image, fragmented until then, and like the sound, constantly changed, is shot from a fixed camera angle and the woman completely fills the frame. Together with the others, she dreamed and contemplated her position, but only she puts it into words.
– Carla Hoekendijk
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Editing Peggy Ahwesh, Brian Decubellis, Sound mixing John McGeehan, Text-animation Keith Sanborn, With Lucy Smith, Deirdre Larson, Serra, Debbie, Joan, Raiko, Diane, Emily, Lana, Eve, Jennifer, Cathy special thanks to Courtney Harmel, Harvest Works, 29th Street Video
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