1966
Voices · Silence · Absence
Persona
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Speech and refusal become equally physical: one woman's torrent of language meets another's silence until voices, breaths and the apparatus of cinema seem to fracture.
Way of listening
Absence.
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2021
Acoustic memory · Subjective listening · Absence
Memoria
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
One unplaceable impact becomes a search through memory, technology, language and landscape; listening is the film's method of inquiry.
2023
Off-screen worlds · Space · Sound–image contradiction
The Zone of Interest
Directed by Jonathan Glazer
Domestic routine occupies the image while an extermination camp persists in sound beyond the wall; the unheard cannot be made harmless by remaining unseen.