’32 Sounds’ Filmmaker Sam Green on Why He Wants Audiences to Wear Headphones: ‘It’s the Best Possible Sound Experience’
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Sam Green’s last film “A Thousand Thoughts” was a documentary about the Kronos Quartet, but his challenge was getting people to “hear” the film because everything about the medium is visual.
When it came to his next project, “32 Sounds,” the documentary feature shortlisted for Oscar, he set out tell a story specifically about sound and the aural experience.
Green assemblies 32 different scenarios in an attempt to challenge how audiences think about sound. In one scene, foley artist Joanna Fang is in a studio drumming her feet and tugging on ropes as she imagines what a falling pine tree landing in snow would sound like.
Elsewhere, sound pioneer Annea Lockwood shares decades-old recordings of underwater sounds of a river. In another scenario, a man blasts the Phil Collins hit “In the Air Tonight” as he drives through Brooklyn.
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