ASYNCH is a live performance that combines foley and sampling, field recording and audio morphing. Based on the ideas of sonic fiction, it is an acousmatic experience of a film that has not been done – and if it were, it would be asynchronous. It’s a confusion where one sound might sound like another, a sound as-if, a magnified detail and everything that shakes (crumbles into dust).
ASYNCH is also the return of a promise, a function that retrieves a value and resolves it. It’s a hold back.
The performance is a release of Pinheiro’s first attempt to make an EP. It consists of 6 individual pieces organised (and failing) as the format of a (foley) song. It invites critical listening and ear cleaning.
Coming soon at PAF 2024.
Acousmatic Echoes of Ruchový archiv, 1968 – 1989.
A composition curated by Jonáš Kucharský, NFA Prague. Commissioned by ARSENAL ASSEMBLY #3, Berlin. Soon available online.
Program note:
Sara Pinheiro’s composition, curated by Jonáš Kucharský of Prague’s Národní filmový archive, explores Barrandov Studios’ long considered lost Foley archive. Established in the late 1950s, the archive had a major influence on the sonic landscape of Czech cinema into the 1990s. Pinheiro’s piece presents digitized sounds from tapes recently found in the archive, offering a glimpse into this vast sonic treasure. Using the sounds acousmatically, Pinheiro investigates how we perceive mediated sounds when taken out of their original context and explores sound’s translation between cultures. The work raises questions about the boundaries between sound and music, particularly in the realm of Foley and sound effects. It is also a contribution to debates around the preservation of transient actions and reflects on the epistemology of sound in the age of recorded media. By presenting the heterogeneous contents of the Foley archive, the composition attempts to answer the question: What does Czech cinema sound like? This work-in-progress offers a unique perspective on Czech film history, sound preservation, and the nature of mediated sound in audiovisual art.
Full composition available here.
Picture by Florent Laplace, Národní filmový archive, thanks to Jonáš Kucharský.
For more information, please visit this episode UFMC podcast episode.
2024 – 10′ – USA/NY
Rent Boy drama short film written and directed by Trey Chapman.
Driven by ambitions of being a concert pianist, a young sex worker violates a client’s privacy, triggering unexpected consequences.
The film stars Devin Druid (13 Reasons Why, Louder Than Bombs).
2023 – 15′ – SA
dir. Elan Gamaker
June, 1986. Township princess Patience must step in as domestic worker at her mother’s employers’ house. But all is not as it seems in the mansion, where so many of her predecessors have given their lives to the house.
2023 – 55′ – CZ/SK
Cas Nadeji is a TV Series produced for Slovak Television. Foley recording by FOLEY STAGE, Prague. Foley Edit by me.
It tells the history of Slovakia from 1914 to 1951 in the story of three generations of the family of Géza Viola, the son of an innkeeper who wants to live his life differently from his father.
2023 – 20′ – CZ
a film by Tomáš Rampula.
The experimental film Time Metallurgist works with found footage materials (photographs, excerpts from newspapers, letters) from the life of Eadweard Muybridge, attempting to reconstruct what happened in the second half of the 19th century in California. It describes the influence of these events on our present. It uses artificial intelligence to process all this material.
2023 – 30′ – UK
a film by Michelle Williams Gamaker.
premiered at South London Gallery
More info here.
2022 - 33' - AT
A film-essay by Olena Newkryta.
a feature directed by Heimir Bjarnason. Sound Design and Mixing by me.
2021 – 18′ – UK
writer/director: Michelle Williams Gamaker.
2021 – 18′ – NL/UK
a project by Dan Walwin for David Dale Gallery
Like clock is a work made up of multiple borrowed and familiar aspects, assembled on its own terms. The essential premise would seem to be about staging a gathering-together in a place that appears to have its own rules.
Supported by Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Creative Scotland.
Selected for and supported by Glasgow International 2021 Across the City.
2021 – 8′ – AT
a video by Katharina Swoboda.
2020 – 10′ – UK
a project by Michelle Williams Gamaker.
producers: Lara Goodband (RAMM, Exeter) and Teresa Grimes (Tintype, London).
The Silver Wave is a 10-minute film based on an Iñupiak woman named Ada Blackjack who was the only surviving member of an ill-fated mission to Wrangel Island in 1921. Themes of ecology, the precarity of the environment we live in and what isolation feels like will be recounted through the diaries of Ada Blackjack. Her words echo our current experiences of being faced with long-term isolation and social distancing.
a project by Katharina Swoboda and Kamen Stoyanov
a short-fiction and exhibition
“A film about an unusual encounter in front of the Monument to Alyosha on the Bunardzhika hill in Plovdiv and some archival photographs. Through the means of the song, the film shows two different points of view on the monument, its prehistory and how mythologies are born. The main characters Vasil and Katarina respond to the Alyosha song, created in 1966 and enjoying great popularity, with the Alexey Skurlatov song, specially composed for the film.”
Please visit the project’s website. Trailer below.
2018 – 15′ – NY/USA
A short-film by Trey Chapman. Fully available here. Trailer below.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Fargo Film Festival 2019
SCAD Savannah Film Festival 2019
Ridgefield Film Festival 2019
Blow-Up Chicago Arthouse Film Festival 2019
Los Angeles CineFest 2019
NOVA Film Festival 2019
Rosewood Ledge Trailer from Trey Chapman on Vimeo.
2017 – 14′ – AT
A project by Katharina Swoboda.
“”Marguerite’s Desires” is a video work about French Feminist Marguerite Durand (1864-1936). The work makes a connection between two places founded by Durand: the pet cemetery Cimetière des Chiens and the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris. Durand, a former actress at Comédie-Française, became interested in politics after the Congrès féministe international in 1896. She then founded the journal “La Fronde” (The Sling), a journal solely written and edited by women. Marguerite had a lion, which she lovingly called tiger and which brought her also publicity for her political campaign. In 1899 she founded the pet cemetery Cimetière des chiens in Asnières-sur-Seine, close to Paris. Although an animal lover, she founded the cemetery for purely hygienic reasons. In 1932, she donated her extensive collection of journals and literature to the government, and the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand was founded. It was the very same place where Durand died in 1936 of a heart attack.” (by k. s.)
2017 – 12′ – CZ
a film by Steen Agro.
The Sleeper - Trailer from Steen Agro on Vimeo.
2017 – 10′ – CZ
a film by Diego Fandos.
Awarded ‘Grand Prix’ at Short Movie Club Festival (Minsk, Belarus).
Screened at
::Festival Mediterránea, Plzen (Czech Republic), May 2017
::One Shot Film Festival, organized by the Center for Contemporary Experimental Art of Yerevan (Armenia), June 2017
::Short Movie Club Festival, National Center of Contemporary Arts, Minsk (Belarus), July 2017…
> winner of the Grand Prix (Best film)
::Bangkok Thai International Film Festival, Bangkok, October 2017
::Crossing the Screen Int. Film Festival, Eastbourne (Towner Art Gallery, UK), November 2017
::Alcine, (Divergences section) International Film Festival of Alcalá de Henares (Spain), November 2017
::TiSFF, Thessaloniki (Greece), December 2017
::Steps ISFF, Latakia (Syria), March 2018
2016 – 90′ – CZ
Sound by Sound4Film/Mix by Ivo Heger, Cinepost – Barrandov Studios.
Foley and Atmos by me.
Please visit the website for more information.
2024 – CZ
Sound design by Ivo Heger, Barandov Studios.
Please visit the website for more information.
2015 – 10′ – CZ
A film directed by Trey Chapman, and others.
Shot on 16mm.
Sound on set and post-production.
2014 – 70′ – NL
A film by Elan Gamaker.
Cinematography by Christopher Wessels, music by Anton Arnby.
IJspaard (Icehorse) from Cinema Suitcase on Vimeo.
2013 – 15′ – PT
A film by Those Happy Days
(Ricardo Almeida & Emanuel Nunes).
Forbidden Room Trailer from ThoseHappyDays on Vimeo.
2013 – NL/FR/FL
madame b. is a project by Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker, based on Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary.
It has been shot in Åland and in Paris and it has several forms:
For more information, pease visit the project’s website.
2012 – 8′ – NL
An installation by Dan Walwin.
HD video installation, continuous loop, stereo sound, flatscreen monitor, speakers, microphones, amplifiers, specific seating arrangement for room dimensions.
The whole soundtrack is Foley.
2016 – 4 channels – 30 min
For a residency in Q-02, Acousmatic Foley took Chantal Akerman’s first short movie “Saute Ma Ville” (1968) as a case study. Throughout Akerman’s sound-work, the project foregrounded concepts as “sound-motif”, “sound-actor” and “sound-prop”.
This residency was kindly authorized by Chantal Akerman’ State, through the Beligium Cinematek.
The performance starts of with Live Foley for the silent parts of the film, and then proceeds acousmatically with the samples taken from the original track. It has been performed at PAF (2018) and Ponrepo (2019).
In 2020, a study of the movie has been published in Iluminace (2019/4).
2011 – 8 channels – 19 min
an exercise in the concepts of sound documentary and sound fiction. it aims to be a pleasant journey into this universe of sounds, until one is able to liberate oneself and the sounds from any referential logics.
: swing lives is my first multichannel work.
: s’wing lives was awarded the 1st prize in the category of “electronic sonorities” @ FIM.