This brief clip is from the film Touch the Sound, a documentary about the world renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie who happens to be deaf . While the entire movie is beautiful, this particular snippet is a great example of the mingling of sounds in the city and the way that attention alters the way that we hear the world around us.
You can actually watch the entire film on Hulu.
Blow Out is a 1981 thriller film, written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars John Travolta as Jack Terry, a movie sound effects technician from Philadelphia who, while recording sounds for a low-budget horror film, serendipitously captures audio evidence of an assassination involving a presidential hopeful. Nancy Allen stars as Sally Bedina, the young woman Jack rescues during the crime. The supporting cast includes John Lithgow and Dennis Franz.
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Hukkle—written and directed by 29-year-old György Pálfi—takes its onomatopoeic title (pronounced HOOK-leh), as well as its framing motif, from the sound of a wrinkly old codger’s hiccup. There are plenty of other noises—all manner of baas, snores, cowbells, and birdcalls—but virtually no dialogue.
Deranging a venerable Hungarian tradition of “village sociology,” Pálfi employs a bizarrely associative montage to fashion a portrait of a traditional peasant community—just a midsummer Sunday on Mars. The perspective keeps shifting from bird’s- to worm’s-eye view. At one point there’s a shock transition to an editing room; at another we’re granted X-ray vision to study a fisherman’s insides. Palfi has a juvenile fondness for yucky close-ups and barnyard humor. There’s a comical match cut from two boccie balls to a pig’s distended testicles.
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