Way of listening
What does altered hearing reveal that clarity cannot?
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Recording & playback · Subjective listening · Distortion
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
A recorded sentence changes meaning each time it is filtered and replayed; surveillance sound becomes an unstable projection of the listener's guilt.
War · Subjective listening · Distortion
Directed by Elem Klimov
After violence, the soundtrack narrows, rings and distorts with the boy's damaged hearing; history becomes bodily rather than safely observed.
Nature · Off-screen worlds · Distortion
Directed by Lucrecia Martel
Animal calls, insects and impossible resonances detach the colonial outpost from realism, as though the landscape refuses to remain background.
War · Subjective listening · Distortion
Directed by Steven Spielberg
The Normandy landing alternates overwhelming battlefield detail with damaged subjective hearing, moving war from spectacle into bodily shock.
Subjective listening · Bodies · Silence
Directed by Darius Marder
Hearing loss is approached through changing filters, vibration, silence and technological mediation, making listening a question of identity rather than a single simulation effect.
