The Sound We See: Growing A Global Slow Film Movement
Initially developed as part of Echo Park Film Center’s free youth filmmaking program in Los Angeles, The Sound We See uses analog filmmaking techniques and the “City Symphony” genre practiced in the 1920s by Walter Ruttmann and Dziga Vertov as starting points to explore communal creative process and contemporary environments.
The project sparked a global “Slow Film” movement with media-marginalized communities in Los Angeles, The Netherlands, Vietnam, India, Somerset UK, Berlin, Tokyo and Canada’s Yukon Territory creating their own 16mm and Super 8 City Symphonies, not only shooting but processing (using both traditional and eco-friendly chemistry) and editing the film by hand, and presenting public exhibitions of the finished work in non-traditional venues. Each community pushes the process to new directions and discoveries; The Sound We See is an ongoing cinematic conversation on the relevance of handmade film in the 21st century.
Links to the films: https://vimeo.com/album/2839480
Bio
Lisa Marr and Paolo Davanzo are filmmakers, educators and community cinema activists whose work is a catalyst for creative collaboration and positive social change. Originally from Canada and Italy respectively, they currently live and work in Los Angeles where they help run the Echo Park Film Center, a non-profit neighborhood media arts center with a focus on analog film education and resources. In 2008, with the generous support of Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio, they launched the EPFC Filmmobile, an old school bus transformed into an eco-friendly cinema and film school on wheels. As The Here & Now, Marr and Davanzo travel the world, bringing handmade movies and music to the masses.
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