fighting women

Fighting Women II is the continuation of a project Ana started in the spring of 1998. The result of this was a half hour documentary that was screened at the Northern Lights Film Awards. Since then Ana's attention has been focused on producing films for the Internet. Fighting Women II is an attempt to create a short web piece that still has many of the concerns of the original documentary but promotes them in quite a different way.

Fighting Women II has a multi-layered soundtrack as well as a multi-layered visual track. "We started with the soundtrack, building a solid soundscape on which to place the visuals. Since it was important to still convey some of the meaning of the original, parts of dialogue were taken from the documentary soundtrack and woven into a 'track', more like the way I'd approach a 'pop promo' than a traditional documentary." This was emphasized by co-creating the sound with sound artist Parasite. So, much of the meaning was created by weaving together snippets of dialogue and music.

The visuals were from a variety of sources including Beta SP footage, Super 8 and sequences taken from the computer game Soul Calibur for the Dreamcast. Ana's aim was to show the diversity of influences and different ways that women's lives are touched by Martial Arts. The film tries to reflect some of these influences, in a nonjudgmental, poetic way.

Fighting Women