Technology changes meaning
In The Conversation, recording, filtering and replay do not simply uncover information. They dramatise how evidence is shaped by the person who listens.
Sound artist listening trail
Walter Murch
An editorial profile and selected route through connected work.
Featured practitioner
An editor, sound designer and mixer whose work treats listening as a form of thought: selective, spatial, psychological and inseparable from the structure of a film.
A selected listening route grounded in interviews and the connected films held by Printmaster.
The theatre becomes part of the film
Apocalypse Now uses movement through the cinema, abrupt changes of scale and unstable transitions between memory and battle to turn spatial reproduction into narrative form.
Editing by relation
Across sound and picture, Murch's work asks how one detail changes another. A cut, a distant sound or a shift in perspective can reorganise the audience's understanding of an entire scene.
Directors in this trail
This is a selected research trail rather than a claim to be a complete filmography. Open a film to follow its people, ideas, sources and related work.