FATHOM THE BOWL: A lyric video made at the Embodying the Video Essay – videographic workshop, Bowdoin College, Maine, July 8-15th, 2023. This was primarily an experiment in adding sound to a silent film sequence from DAVID COPPERFIELD (A.W. Sandberg, Denmark 1922) and in seeing how multiple screen editing might work like an audiovisual kind of harmony or polyphony to dissect, expose and magnify the marvellous variations of performance and staging that are part of this film’s very humorous adaptation of passages from Dickens’s original novel. The song I excerpted from is a traditional one, ‘The Punch Ladle’, performed by Robin Jeffrey & Tim Laycock (https://youtu.be/_EUZ8Cb2rVY?si=FLy8gseIh7faCiUC). I worked with a brilliant advisory group for this exercise, including Ariel Avissar and Colleen Laird.