Being silent, listening, formulating and pronouncing correctly. Hitting the chords, keeping the rhythm, finding the genre. Our auditive education goes deep. It starts early and never ends, is part of our bodies and our cultures. The desire to detach oneself from it is inscribed in the program SONIC TEACHINGS. Four idiosyncratic films rebel against boundaries drawn with a red pen: We hear the permanent sound of being deaf, listen to music history through vibrating bodies, celebrate the liveliness of language between people and finally hear unusual jazz sounds in the vastness of the Georgian mountains. (Theresa George)
SilencioVozRuido is a documentary that tells through photographs, objects and documents from the family archive, the experience of the director during the first years of his life with Pierre Robin syndrome. The documentary is an intimate, personal journey of reinterpretation of the images anchored in the memory. A journey to the past to understand the present.… >>>
In LEYILA AND THE POET [Da lala la ti-ra-ta] we will listen to Kamila Metwaly’s “Sonic Letter to Halim El-Dabh'” intertwined with the music of Halim El-Dabh’s. We will listen to “The stories of the healing powers of cats and the women of the Zaar. The stories of how you connect electronic music to the human voice, and how you connect electricity to the body itself. And how voice is rather one of the elemental rhythms of our bodies, of communication and of electricity.”… >>>
The focus of the work is the playful, imaginative, and rhythmic aspects of language learning; the sounds of language acquisition, and the figurative world of things that accompanies a migrant child’s language learning process as a playful means of expression.… >>>
A long poem to the mountains. LET US FLOW! explores ritual and its role in maintaining community ties, performative masculinity, collectivity and the symbolic and physical division of sacred space.… >>>