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SSFX (Space Sound Effects) The Anthology Film | Full Movie ft Real Sounds of Space

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Channel: Martin Archer · 2018 · Film & Animation

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Alien may have told you “In space no one can hear you scream” but it was wrong! The SSFX project challenged independent filmmakers from around the world to create short-films incorporating a series of strange sounds from space recorded by satellites. The resulting highly creative works, spanning a wide array of topics and genres, have been combined into an anthology.
Find out more: http://ssfx.qmul.ac.uk

THE FILMS

01:08 The Rebound Effect
Bringing together contemporary movement and digital media to capture dance in a way which pushes beyond the tangible dimensions of live performance.

03:17 Astroturf
A meticulous young man tends to his fake garden to the sounds of deep space.
Director & Producer Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpC-sFzUnEE

05:11 Noise
A secretive woman opens herself up to her unruly housemate, after they are stuck together in her room.
Director & Actress Q&A: https://youtu.be/Fgvo_lP7ZmA

18:27 Saturation
There's no answer when time is the question. Featuring 35mm slides found in a medical archive, this sci-fi story concerns unknown phenomena that made all organic processes so fast as to make life impossible.
Director Q&A: https://youtu.be/rYxFHExQ4aQ

24:32 Names and Numbers
A sound and voice collage shaped by the sounds of space and Morse code, addressing the external, physical and material experiences of sound and movement contrasted with interior reflections, explored through language, inner voices and symbols.
Director Q&A: https://youtu.be/Uuvcm1YfdZ4

38:35 Murmurs of a Macrocosm
A journey through a microscopic world. We are led via the descriptive recordings of those who travelled it.
Director Q&A: https://youtu.be/e3kUGlvI_Hk

43:17 DARK MATTER(S)
This experimental and meditative imagining captures the activities of a fish tank in a way that takes the inhabitants out of their enclosed world, to a place unknown, to feel both their death and their life.
Director & Sound Designer Q&A: https://youtu.be/quLaFmS9kDE


The SSFX project utilises data from the USA’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and has been supported by Queen Mary’s Centre for Public Engagement, the European Geosciences Union and Science and Technology Facilities Council.

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