A still from 32 Sounds: A sand beach with a speaker on a stand, a man does a press-up beside it
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Film

32 Sounds

Sam Green (USA)
2 performances between Tue 21 & Wed 22 May 2024
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Previously presenting his ‘live documentaries’, A Thousand Thoughts and The Measure of All Things, American filmmaker and Festival favourite Sam Green returns to Brighton with his 2024 Academy Award-shortlisted documentary, 32 Sounds. 

32 Sounds is a meditation on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us. Both an immersive film and a profound sensory experience, it explores the elemental phenomenon of sound.

Listening via binaural headphones and with a live narration from Green, the audience is taken on an extraordinary journey through a series of 32 vignettes, reflecting a broad range of sonic and cultural experiences that together combine into a meditation on the ephemeral nature of sound and its relationship with time and perception. 

Original music for 32 Sounds is composed by JD Samson of Le Tigre.

Trailer

A large screen with a video mid-transition of a person playing guitar in an empty room and a close-up of a microphone
Silhouettes against a large video of two people wearing headphones
A photo from the back of a stage of a man in a suit talking animatedly at the audience
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A large screen with a video mid-transition of a person playing guitar in an empty room and a close-up of a microphone
Silhouettes against a large video of two people wearing headphones
A photo from the back of a stage of a man in a suit talking animatedly at the audience
‘A unique and ephemeral experience…heady and spine-tingling…the filmed narrative is engaging and richly visual.’
The New York Times
'Felt like bathing in aural sensation.'
Vox
'Full to bursting with humor, emotion and curiosity...a rare and rewarding sonic journey with the potential to enrich our lives...puts the entire act of listening in context, such that I doubt I will ever hear things quite the same way again.'
Variety

Credits

Commissioned by Stanford Live, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Ferst Center for the Arts, Green Music Center, Arizona Arts Live and developed at MASS MoCA. Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Produced by Josh Penn & ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann.

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