32 Sounds

Shortly after the invention of the phonograph in 1877, a prominent newspaper of the time predicted that Thomas Edison’s machine was powerful enough to stop death itself. The human body was still ephemeral, but the human voice had effectively become immortal. It was now…

davidehrlich

listening with, as opposed to listening to. something really special about witnessing this in a room with a couple hundred or so strangers— all wearing headphones. to be encouraged to move, to make sounds that are usually wrong in the real world, to create art alongside…

anna kay acquaro

SUNDANCE 2022 “Everything changes and nothing is lost.” Academy Award nominated documentarian Sam Green brings us 32 Sounds, a collection of different sounds including a burning piano, a cat purring, waves crashing, and a whoopee cushion. This 95 minute experience…

Allison M. 🌱

An absolute embarrassment. Rarely do we see a film bungle so poorly material which has the potential to be so radical and so exciting — and not just bungle, but reduce to the subterranean-common-denominator of the Buzzfeed listicle, NYT Opinion piece, and/or TED Talk. A…

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I am better than everyone because I have seen this

AnnaBalch

Gotta love a film that asks you to close your eyes, yell aloud, and stop for a 5-minute dance interlude.

Shannon Williams

Apologies in advance if this ends up reading like the most obnoxious LinkedIn post of all time, but earlier today I had someone ask me during a job interview, "What drives you to get up in the morning?" Which is a simple question I guess, but I'm finding the more and more…

anna lenè 🩷

False advertising as usual from the Film Forum. Way more than 32 sounds.

John Earling

In the documentary 32 SOUNDS an archivist at the British Library choses one natural sound as the saddest of all. It's the mating call of the extinct Hawaiian bird Moho braccatus. There were only two left in 1987. The female died. The next mating season, the male called out…

Paul Schrader