Listen (2017)

인류 종말의 초기 단계로 보이는 가까운 미래, 이미 폐쇄된 뉴욕 주에서 간신히 살아남은 부부와 세 자녀가 맨발로 숨죽인 채 시골 마을의 식료품점을 헤맨다. 작은 소리에도 민감하게 반응해 소리의 근원지를 파괴하러 달려오는 괴 생명체가 곳곳에 도사리고 있기 때문. 전 세계를 파괴해 버린 무차별적인 공격과 숨통을 조여 오는 거대한 위협 속에서 살아남기 위해 주인공 가족은 일상에서 발생하는 모든 소리를 최소화하며 위태롭게 살아간다. 숨소리조차 마음 편히 낼 수 없는 극한의 상황, 아버지 리(존 크래신스키)와 어머니 에블린(에밀리 블런트)은 아이들과 자신들의 생명을 지키기 위해 고군분투하는데...

실체를 알 수 없는 괴생명체의 공격으로 일상의 모든 것이 사라진 세상, 아이들 대신 죽음을 선택한 아빠의 희생 이후 살아남은 가족들은 위험에 노출된다. 갓 태어난 막내를 포함한 아이들과 함께 소리 없는 사투를 이어가던 엄마 에블린은 살아남기 위해 새로운 은신처를 찾아 집 밖을 나서지만, 텅 빈 고요함으로 가득한 바깥은 더 큰 위험이 도사리고 있다. 이들은 과연 고요함으로 가득한 세상 속을 무리 없이 걸어나갈 수 있을까.

데번에 사는 부부 안소니와 레이첼은 클로슬리라는 이상한 여행객을 만난다. 크로슬리는 사람을 죽일 수 있는‘치명적인 외침’인 호주 원주민들의 샤머니즘을 알려주고, 이로 인해 평범했던 부부의 삶은 끔찍한 방향으로 흘러간다. 로버트 그레이브의 짧은 소설을 기반으로 한 이 영화는 70년대 만들어진 초현실주의 스릴러 '위커맨'이나 '지금 뒤돌아 보지 마라'와 같은 영화들과 맥을 같이한다. 독특한 내러티브와 전례 없는 사운드 효과로 1970년대 후반 영국 공포영화의 초석이 된 작품.

Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip.

바다 깊은 곳 어둠 속, 고래는 소리에 의지하여 짝짓기를 하고, 먹을 것을 찾고, 이동하고, 새끼를 키우며, 또 천적으로부터 스스로를 보호한다. 그러나 지난 세기, 인간들의 활동은 바다 속에서 음향으로 소통하는 고래의 서식환경을 변형시켜서 고래 및 다른 해양 동물의 서식환경에 위협을 가했다. 는 바다가 조용해지기를 희망하며 이에 해결책을 제시한다. 그리고 바다의 운명은 우리 자신의 운명과 불가분의 관계에 있다는 것을 보여준다. 영화의 내레이션은 레이첼 맥아담스가 맡았으며 음악가이자 인권 및 환경 활동가인 스팅이 출연한다. (2018년 제6회 순천만세계동물영화제)

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.

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.

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

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.

Hundreds of boxes left by the famous uruguayan musician and political activist Alfredo Zitarrosa (1936-1989) who run away the dictatorship in the 70s, have not been touched since his death 27 years ago. Now his wife and daughters are trying to save the memories, tapes, music and sound recordings that the boxes contain to the posterity.

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