1.0 video http://www.nfb.ca/film/assembly Jenn Strom National Film Board of Canada http://www.nfb.ca http://media1.nfb.ca/medias/nfb_tube/thumbs_small/2012/Assembly_clip-small_2.jpg 204 115 <iframe src="http://www.nfb.ca/film/assembly/embed/player" width="530" height="345" ></iframe><p style="width:(( width ))px"><a href="http://www.nfb.ca/film/assembly/" target="_blank"><em>Assembly</em></a> by <a href="http://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/jenn-strom/" title="more films by Jenn Strom" target="_blank">Jenn Strom</a>, <a href="http://www.nfb.ca" target="_blank">National Film Board of Canada</a></p> 530 345 Dedicated to the memory of Kathleen Shannon, this experimental short Assembly is inspired by the NFB's Studio D filmmakers. Featuring a rhythmic soundscape and paint-on-glass animation, the film shows a woman’s hands reaching in and out of the frame, cutting and editing a reel of film on a flatbed editing table. She splices, scrubs, rewinds and rolls the sound and images. Fragments of animated archival footage flash across the screen: women walking in chains, protesting with placards, speaking at podiums. We hear bursts of words and the percussive whir and click of the Steenbeck—until a “message” is finally revealed.