The Sound of Light (2016)

Evelyn y Lee Abbott son una pareja con tres hijos que vive en una granja aislada de toda civilización al norte de Nueva York. Esta familia ha sobrevivido durante meses en un mundo invadido y amenazado por mortales criaturas extraterrestres que se guían por el sonido para cazar. En este contexto en el que una palabra puede significar la muerte, la familia Abbott vive silenciosamente, andan descalzos y se comunican por medio del lenguaje de señas.

Tras los fatales acontecimientos sucedidos en la primera parte, la familia Abbot debe enfrentarse a los peligros del mundo exterior mientras luchan en silencio por sobrevivir. Forzados a aventurarse en lo desconocido, pronto se dan cuenta de que las criaturas que cazan orientadas por el sonido no son la única amenaza que acecha más allá del camino de arena. Secuela de la exitosa producción "Un lugar tranquilo" (A Quiet Place, 2018).

Durante el tradicional partido de criquet que juegan todos los años los enfermos mentales de un sanatorio contra los habitantes de Lampton, Charles Crossley le cuenta a Robert que tiene un poder sobrenatural, aprendido durante los 18 años que pasó con los aborígenes australianos: el poder de matar con un grito...

Plane Crazy (estrenado el 15 de mayo de 1928) es el primer cortometraje animado de Walt Disney en el que aparece el personaje de Mickey Mouse, así como su novia Minnie Mouse. El corto fue codirigido por Walt Disney y Ub Iwerks. Este último fue también el principal animador de la película en la que según referencias de la época trabajó durante seis meses. Hugh Harman y Rudolf Ising trabajaron como ayudantes de Iwerks. Aunque ambos estaban a punto de abandonar los estudios Disney, ya que habían firmado ya un contrato con Charles Mintz, continuaron trabajando con Disney en tanto que Mintz organizaba su nuevo estudio.

The devastating impact of industrial and military ocean noise on whales and other marine life.

When two teenagers discover an unusual object possessing supernatural abilities, they find themselves dealing with more power than they can handle.

Despite living in a doomed country that hangs by a thread, Joud, a handsome sound engineer meets and falls in love with strong and free-spirited Rana. The young lovers, from completely different social and religious backgrounds, are drawn closer to each other, but a drastic turn of events gets between them and Rana suddenly slips away. As her parents forbid Joud from seeing her, the young man determined to see her again, finds new means of communicating with her by convincing Marwa, her sister, to download his voice messages and secretly play them to Rana

A duo of street performers learns how sound and picture work together to create amazing cinema experiences.

The film accompanies musicians who have devoted themselves to new, uncharted sounds with a great deal of passion. They build new instruments and work with quotidian noises. In the process, the ostensible noise often becomes sound. An adventurous journey of discovery into the realm of noises and sounds, rhythms and stillness. Together with people who listen closely and without reservation. A film that aims to engage viewers to listen with their eyes and see with their ears. Astonishingly sublime.

Pure sound unaltered by human hands is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Gordon Hempton is an Emmy Award-winning sound recordist who has spent the last 30 years trying to find and record the vanishing sounds of nature in an attempt to capture a disappearing sensory experience. Filmmaker Nick Sherman observes Hempton in the wilderness for 30 days and uncovers an obsessive artist on a quest for perfection in this obscure medium. Hempton’s natural ability to locate and articulate himself through sound has a contagious energy and gives his work a transportive quality. Soundtracker is a fascinating meditation on the world’s changing landscape and the things we may be leaving behind in the service of progress.

The story of a man who has reached the very top of society and eventually became a victim of his own ideology.

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.

Since the 1930’s, sound gurus referred to as Foley artists have recreated the sounds that infuse a film with life. During a film’s post-production, Foley artists recreate sound that will match the moving image on-screen, using whatever objects are at their fingertips, from hundreds of pairs of old shoes to clunky old tools and squeaky mattresses. But how will Hollywood’s low-tech sound artists survive as digital technology consumes modern movie-making?

A documentary about Walerian Borowczyk’s sound sculptures, featuring curator Maurice Corbet.

"Central Park" is composed of 11 films that offer a visual, sound and poetic journey through 11 cities crossed by the artist. Fascinated by the city, space and urbanism, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has been developing the concept of "tropical modernity" for several years, starting from the cohabitation and the confrontation between architecture and vegetation. It is around this research that she designed "Central Park" 11 films : - Kyoto (1998) - Taipei (2000) - Buenos Aires (2003) - Los Glaciares (2003) - Hong Kong (2000) - Encore Tapei (2000) - White Sands (2003) - Brasilia (1998) - Paris (1999) - Shangai (2003) - Rio de Janeiro (2000)

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.

An unusual documentary exploring sound. Unique elements of Japanese culture are revealed through ancient rituals and extraordinary musical spectacles. A young Buddhist priest whose family has been serving a temple for the past 500 years is also a DJ and beat-boxer. A drum teacher takes part in a costume performance of a 700-year-old ghost story. A female performer plays the Sho, a rare bamboo instrument that is believed to imitate the call of the mythical phoenix. The core ideas explaining the magical potential of sound that permeates all parts of the film are presented in the tradition of Shingon Buddhism. These beliefs are explored through following Buddhist chanting lessons for student priests at Shuchiin University in Kyoto.

film about the desire of listening. An intermingling of voices from childhood, dreams, history, sex and politics. A visual essay about the universe of sounds. What is sound? What is the sound experience? Sound placed and replaced as Energy. Nothing more should be said. The final conclusion, while the spectator flies over an infinite sea, talks about spreading fragility open. That is the Sound.

A boom operator attempts to record the noise mushrooms make in this semi-experimental animation inspired by the world of sounds.

In “Everybody’s Cage”, German film artist Sandra Trostel turns John Cage and his approach to art into a tangible fascination, without giving in to explain just a single bit of it.