Hai cercato: The Sounding
Sound / 2013
The film revolves around the life of Tarak, a foley artist of Bengali film. Tarak's job is to create ambient sounds for films, but, he gradually gets trapped in his own world, a world full of sound.
Sounds / 2020
We are surrounded by all kinds of sounds, but how far are we conscious about them? The director and investigator Raquel Castro has been working with the concept of sound landscape. And in particular the way sounds, silences, noises, frequencies and all spectral densities - infra or ultrasounds - can shape each place and all of us. This is also a film essay about citizenship, ecology, and the responsibility we have for the sounds we produce.
Conosciuto per: Newcomers (2019), La Cocina (2024), Monsieur Spade (SERIE TV 2024)
The Hidden Sound of Tango / 2023
Patricio Crom is an antique guitar collector; that is why, when he runs into a star-rosette guitar -like the one Gardel used-, he sets out to recover its original sound. To do this, he gathers guitarists and specialists who help him achieve the hidden sound of tango.
Conosciuto per: Some Call It a Conspiracy: A Malcolm London Story (2018)
Italo Disco: The Sparkling Sound of the 80s / 2021
The history of italo disco, a musical genre that conquered the world during the incredible eighties, the most cybernetic decade; a style that was not just another kind of dance-pop music, but also the origin of an aesthetic, a true social phenomenon and the creative center of a very profitable industry.
Conosciuto per: School Tales: La serie (SERIE TV 2022), Hoon Payon (2023), Pee Nak 3 (2022)
Sound in the Mist / 1956
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Kazuhiko's wife Kazuyo comes to see them and confronts the professor about his extramarital affair, and Tsuruko, an inevitable witness to the confrontation, leaves the professor the following morning. Over the next decade, whenever he visits the mountain cabin every autumn equinox, the memory of Tsuruko will forever haunt Kazuhiko...
Conosciuto per: Kyaabre (SERIE TV 2021), One Cut Two Cut (2022)
The Sound Story / 2019
The films narrates the story of a sound designer who strives hard to realize his dream of recording all the sounds of the Thrissur Pooram.
Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang / 2017
The documentary starts with a diva of a tragic family history related to a history of migration. The rare archival footage reanimates her history reverberating with the current world crisis. Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang is a testimonial – a witness to injustice and tragedy, but it is also a declaration of survival – a survival that is not static but transformative – not brittle but fluid. The trains that displace, the deserts that separate form one harsh horizon – a historical limit – but within that limit, against it and across it are people, are a culture, not escaping but flourishing unofficially, with the affective majesty of a melody, a rhythm, an Arirang
Conosciuto per: Galaate (2013), Maurya (2004), Yajamana (2000)
The Sound that Goes Down to Earth / 2020
Maria da Luz waits for her husband who got lost somewhere in Angola during the war. With no news, she finds herself surrounded by families that, like her, desperately long for some kind of hope regarding their loved ones fighting abroad. She takes the matter in her hands and starts tape recording loving messages from each mother, wife and other family members. Carrying the tapes, she travels to Angola and personally delivers these messages to each and every soldier in a personal quest right in the middle of a country in war.
Yohane the Parhelion -The Story of the Sound of Heart- / 2023
Yohane the Parhelion -The Story of the Sound of Heart- (幻日のヨハネ -The Story of the Sound of Heart- Genjitsu no Yohane -The Story of the Sound of Heart-) is an upcoming live concert event that will take place at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza in Chofu, Tokyo on December 15, 16 and 17, 2023.
Conosciuto per: 55:15 Never Too Late (SERIE TV 2021), Man Suang (2023)
Engi – Sound Designer Ivo Špalj / 2023
A look at the legendary Czech sound designer and his profession. Editor and documentary filmmaker Adéla Špaljová has her father Ivo Špalj talk about his life, career, and working methods. Over the course of his long life, sound designer Ivo Špalj (*1940) has collaborated on hundreds of films and become a mentor for at least one generation of men and women behind the mixing board. This gentle documentary also shows “Engi” (as he is known to his colleagues) again working with Jan Švankmajer, whose films he has lent their typical, dense, and sophisticated sound mix.