How Can Sound Do Things?

Quotation

«I began to wonder what it means to say that sounds make things happen. How can sound do things?»

The quote is taken from the article «Voiced Into Being: the Power of Sound and the Phenomenon of Cursing in Kyzyl, Tuva» published 2020 in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Last accessed June 30, 2021.

Biography

Mally Stelmaszyk is a Post-Doctorate Research Associate in Social Anthropology. She has conducted ethnographic research on cursing and shamanic practice in post-Soviet Tuva. In particular, her work focused on transformative qualities of sound and music in shamanic rituals and animistic relationships. Her research interests include shamanic practice, occultism, sounds and music art, post-colonialism, animism and addiction studies.

Published on June 30, 2021

Last updated on June 27, 2022

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Panoptic

Q&A

by Anna Trechsel

As part of the Q&A series of the 10^th Norient Film Festival 2021, radio producer Anna Trechsel sat down with the director of the documentary Panoptic (Lebanon/United Arab Emirates) Rana Eid.

Rana Eid’s Panoptic takes the viewer on a dark peregrination in the city of Beirut, and becomes a terrain on which images, sounds and voices superimpose and coalesce, as if to mirror the complexities and rhythms of the city itself.

Cut: MR. LU*
Production: Christopher Blatter

Trailer Film

This video is part of the Q&A program of the 10^th Norient Film Festival 2021. The talk was recorded on January 30, 2021, via Zoom.

Biography

Anna Trechsel is a Swiss journalist focussing on foreign policy, in particular the Middle East. She currently works as a radio producer for «Echo der Zeit», Swiss National Public Radio SRF. Follow her on LinkedIn.

Links

Rayya Badran: «The Sound of Beirut’s Underbelly» (Norient)

Published on July 14, 2021

Last updated on April 09, 2024

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City

Sound

Perception

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Norient Film Festival NFF 10 (2021)

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The Power of Sound in Film: Hollywood + Bollywood

Q&A

by Miriam de Rosa

As part of the Q&A series of the 10^th Norient Film Festival 2021, the directors Midge Costin Making Waves (USA 2019), Subash Sahoo The Sound Man Mangesh Desai (India 2017) and the global cinema researcher Monia Acciari met with researcher Miriam de Rosa.

How important is sound in film? How can sound tell its own story? What are the differences and similarities of sound in other film industries? Listen back to this Q&A and find out more about the hidden power of sound in cinema.

Cut: MR LU*
Introduction & Production: Christopher Blatter

Trailer The Sound Man Mangesh Desai

Trailer Making Waves

This video is part of the Q&A program of the 10^th Norient Film Festival 2021. The talk was recorded on January 11, 2021, via Zoom.

Biography

Miriam de Rosa is an associate professor of film, photography and television at the department of philosophy and cultural heritage. Before arriving in Venice, she was senior lecturer at Coventry University (UK).She is the author of the monograph »Cinema e postmedia« (2013) and the co-editor (with Vinzenz Hediger) of »Post-what? Post-when? Thinking moving images beyond the post-medium/post-cinema condition«, a special issue of Cinéma&Cie forthcoming in fall 2016.

Links

Dan Brown: «Cinesonic Holism» (Norient)

Alaka Sahani: «Is the Pandemic a Heyday for Unsung Heroes?» (Norient)

Published on June 30, 2021

Last updated on June 30, 2021

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Gender

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Norient Film Festival NFF 10 (2021)

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