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

[Alexander Soifer]

Peter Greenaway (“The Cook, the Thief…”, Prospero’s Books”, “The Baby of Macon”) used ‘operatic approach’: he cut his image to fit music.

Alexander Soifer

From: Frameworks <frameworks-bounces at film-gallery.org> On Behalf Of jimmyschaus1
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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<mailto: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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