[Frameworks] Sound-centric films: excellence in sound design

[jimmyschaus1]

shameless self promotion: *St. Francis Hears a Noise*
<https://vimeo.com/287112026>, my experimental narrative feature from 2018

Mary Helena Clark's *The Glass Note <https://vimeo.com/265471338>*


my film sound pantheon, in addition to Martel, as you mentioned:
Damon Packard (particularly *Reflections of Evil*), Laida Lertxundi,
Deborah Stratman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Robert Bresson, and Jacques Tati



On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 4:25 PM Andrew Skalak <andrew.skalak at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am interested in finding films that are particularly interested in and
> make exceptional use of sound. I would say films that are sound-centric
> even: where sound is the primary device of the film above the image. In the
> narrative world I think the filmmaker that has best explored this is
> Lucrecia Martel.
>
> A great and classic text on what I am trying to explore is Randy Thom’s
> 1999 essay on designing films for sound, as opposed to designing sound for
> film: https://www.filmsound.org/articles/designing_for_sound.htm.
>
> I am interested in films with very rich and layered field recording;
> heavy, extreme, or absurd foley; innovative microphone techniques such as
> contact microphones, hydrophones, binaural audio, spatial audio recording;
> unique sound post processing, etc. If there are any films that are not
> necessarily sound-centric, but someone feels really struck then sonically
> I’m very interested in that as well.
>
> I am also interested in films that make use of surround sound and the
> surround space in ways not possible in narrative films, though I may not be
> able to experience them online or without seeing them in a theater.
>
> This is a narrative film, but in this realm is “Out of Tune” by Aaron
> With:
> https://vimeo.com/488308481
>
> I’m definitely most interested in films I can watch or rent online, but
> any films that only exist on prints or are hard to see I am more than happy
> to add to a list to hopefully watch some day.
>
> Thanks you all,
> Andrew
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