This short experimental film was made in response to Pitzer College Professor Ming-Yuen S. Ma‘s project This is not a reading / Ceci n’est pas une lecture, a series of remixes and conversations inspired by sound.

Working with a footage of Ma reading passages from his 2020 book There is no soundtrack: Rethinking art, media, and the audio-visual contract, Finley + Muse dissociate sound and sense, image and voice, voice and body. Quote Unquote creates new audio-visual relations, formally probing Ma’s work of schoarlship.