It took 25 foreign broadcasters and 10 years to put together BBC2's excellent Great War Diaries, a moving and sometimes gripping documentary (in three parts) of archive, voiced testimony and dramatisation, stitched into a powerful shared narrative.
Her recent essays explore graphic memoir, posthumanism, voice, and testimony and online life narrative.
To spectators in the Manhattan courtroom, it was a mundane moment: a court stenographer reading in a monotone voice the testimony of a woman who said she was raped by a police officer.
October 11 2011 October 15 201111 In "Ordinary Witnesses," the first of two works that the Algerian-French choreographer is contributing to the "Crossing the Line" festival, we sit in near-darkness and listen to the voice-over testimony of survivors of torture and genocide.
From various parts of the theater are heard voices of testimony from the accusers - Abigail Williams and her adolescent friends who are swept away by the clamor of witch fever.
Anyone familiar with Noel Field's sad story, marked by chronic naivete and puppyish enthusiasm, will recognize his authentic voice in the testimony introduced by Mrs. Schmidt.
But the South African composer Philip Miller went straight to the source in his "REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony," which received its American premiere on Friday night at the Prospect Park Bandshell.
"Mr. Case, on behalf of the I.M. industry and users everywhere, tear down this wall!" Ross Bagully, chief executive of an America Online rival, Tribal Voice, said in testimony before the Federal Communications Commission last Thursday, after a speech by AOL's chairman, Steve Case.
The novel is a gathering of voices, and each testimony has a new revelation about what led to the catastrophe; everyone touched by the tragedy finds themselves caught in the undertow, as their secret histories finally come to light.
The tribunal, expected to take at least six months to reach a verdict, will question Duch in greater detail next week about the roles he held under the regime and, uniquely, give the victims and the bereaved a chance to have their voices heard in testimony.
