1979
Space · Nature · Acoustic memory
Stalker
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Water, metal, distant machinery and passages of near-stillness make the Zone feel heard before it can be understood.
Way of listening
Acoustic memory.
How can a sound carry another time or buried history?
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2001
Voices · Acoustic memory · Music becoming sound
Mulholland Dr.
Directed by David Lynch
A voice insists that there is no band, yet music overwhelms the room; performance, recording and memory become impossible to separate.
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.