Neo-Benshi is the practice of producing live alternate voice-overs for movies.
The art form’s acknowledged starting point is in Korea, Japan, Taiwan
and other East Asian nations during the silent film era. Benshi is a
Japanese word referring to the oral "interpreter" who performed a live
narrative accompaniment to silent movies, in lieu of showing
intertitles with dialogue, etc. In Korean the practice is known as
pyônsa. Currently, it is finding a resurgence among experimental poets
in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles.
you can find some examples here:
http://benshi.org/
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