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What is enacted by putting ourselves in the picture? What is enacted by choosing to be the subject of the gaze? In this chapter, we outline our approaches to script development in relation to our respective projects, arguing for expanded notions of screenwriting and the screenplay. The first project, The Iris Opens/The Iris Closes: Le Silence #2, is at once a translation, a writing through, a critique, and a reimagining of French writer and director Louis Delluc’s post-production scenario for his Impressionist film, Le Silence (1920). A tale of love, deception and violence, described as ‘a daring montage of different temporalities’, its modernism develops from Delluc’s attempt to narrate memory mimetically. Part of a practice-based research into expanded screenwriting, iterations of the script operate simultaneously as screenplay, intermedial essay, critical texts, literatures, and performance and reading scores. The second project, One in a Million Girl, tells two stories: a fiction, featuring the scenes for a proposed feminist musical, and process, where the author’s reflections and creative history are presented. This ‘fictocritical screenplay’ shows how the creative and the critical, the practice and the process, the author and her characters can speak to each other in a multi-layered form that engages readers with the screenplay’s thematic and academic origins. |
