Sara Pinheiro
installation
AERA
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.
alyosha and the cat
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.
jako z filmy
house of women
2017 – 14′ – UK
A film by Michelle Williams Gamaker.
Shot on 16 mm. Sound design by me.
Premiered at BFI London Film Festival, this film was purchased for the national Arts Council Collection and contributed to Williams-Gamaker’s joint-win of the Film London Artist Moving Image Jarman Award in 2020.
madame b
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.
emma’soundscape
2013 – str installation – 20 min loop
This installation is part of a multiscreen installation by the visual artists Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams-Gamaker based on the prophetic novel from 1856, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. Emma (Madame B.) is an attentive ‘listener’ and sensitive to her surroundings. The soundtrack (both installation and the feature-lenght versions) has been developed into a series of sound-motifs that characterize Emma via sound. Listening to these sound-motifs becomes an exercise in sound-focalization. In Emma’s Soundscape, we reflect on the accumulated sounds of an individual life, which simultaneously shape and enclose the space defining her. These sounds mark and leave traces, and ultimately outline ‘her expansion into the world as well as her confinement in it’.
For more information about the project please visit the project’s website.