Tongue Twisters (2011)

  • NR
  • 01/01/2011 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 11m

Overview

« How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood ? » A tongue twister is a sentence with much alliterations and is complicated to pronounce. A tongue twister must be spoken quickly and repeated a few times. Langage breaks down between and meaning. This film is a linguistic game between sound and meaning and a portrait of the linguistic reality of Berkeley. Many American people recite tongue twisters in diffrent languages and/or in English as second language : German, Englsih, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Mandarin, Korean, Croatian, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Japonese, Farsi, Portuguese, Tagalog, Vietnamese.

Érik Bullot

Director

Cast

Kea Anderson's headshot

Kea Anderson

Laura Altieri's headshot

Laura Altieri

Mike Arcega's headshot

Mike Arcega

Lindsay L. Benedict's headshot

Lindsay L. Benedict

Félix Bullot's headshot

Félix Bullot

Judith Butler's headshot

Judith Butler

Xiaoning Cai's headshot

Xiaoning Cai

Ali Dadgar's headshot

Ali Dadgar

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