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What’s That Sound

What’s That Sound

What's That Sound

George Barber | UK | 2004 | 5' |

| IFFR 2005

The idea of this video is to use the central idea of the drama where the characters struggle to hear the sound of a rescue ship. In this way, the re-editing becomes a device asking the audience to concentrate and listen extra hard to the soundtrack of the piece. Just what is it made of? What are the bare fundamentals here? What exactly is it we are listening for?

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