Sound Movies

A speeding moment in time, a blink of an eye, when the inner and outer selves reveal themselves simultaneously.

This documentary depicts two young adults discussing their relationship with sound and silence.

This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...

I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece by American composer and sound artist Alvin Lucier composed in 1969. The first performance of the work...

Set in an audio post production suite, 7Hz follows an overnight employee’s encounter with a strange device able to emit dangerous and harmful...

A couple of sound engineers have stopped paying attention to each other. During a film shooting they see themselves in the actors who play the scene,...

After a period of time where her hearing begins to overtake her sight, Casandra searches for the cause of her problem, isolating herself from...

A personal reflection on hands, the word "tear," and caring for oneself that experiments with sound, silence, and definitions.

After waking up with amnesia on the beach, the protagonist is pursued by the police to face the consequences of an unknown past. This soundscape uses...

Cranes and Voices explores the evocative power of sound through the experiences of people who hear voices and a collective of sound investigators,...

Alex Jaffray, music columnist for Télématin, shares his passion for music, which allowed him, as a child, to communicate with notes...

At the Saarland Modern Galerie in Saarbrücken, Germany, songs from Unfurl, Asaf Avidan's new album, blend with masterpieces from a contemporary...

A film featuring architect, sculptor, and musician Nobuo Kubota in a sound-sculpture performance. From within a cage-like structure filled with...

William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.

Acoustic Ocean is an artistic exploration of the sonic ecology of marine life in the North Atlantic. Located on the Lofoten Islands in Northern...

In an age where silence is complicity, Muslimgauze: Electronic Intifada resurrects the haunting pulse of Bryn Jones—the Manchester-born...

Knucklebones follows the course of hysterical outburst to instances of alienation and isolation. From a 1903 newspaper, "While fifteen hundred...