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LOST AND SOUND Imagine waking up in the morning to find that the world sounds utterly different and music is suddenly unrecognizable. All the songs you loved and all the songs you’ve yet to discover are suddenly out of reach.
DIRECTOR BIO Lindsey Dryden is a documentary filmmaker and obsessive music lover from London, UK. She’s worked on documentaries for broadcasters like the BBC, Channel 4 and Current TV, written for newspapers and magazines, and screened her films at True/ False, East End Film Festival, London International Documentary Festival, the British Film Institute and others. This is her first feature. She is partially deaf.
One in seven of us will experience some kind of hearing loss in our lifetime. So what would happen to the music you love, if your hearing was lost? Could you find a way to get music back again... and could music find you? Made by a partially deaf filmmaker after the future of her own hearing was called into doubt, this fascinating documentary follows three extraordinary people as they try to rediscover music after deafness: a dancer deaf since birth, a young pianist who lost her hearing as a baby, and a music critic facing sudden partial hearing loss.
Production Country: UK Total running time: 76 min
SHOWTIMES FRI Nov 9 1:00pm Native Sons | St Helena SUN Nov 11 10:00am Gliderport | Calistoga Director/Producer: Lindsey Dryden Producer: Kat Mansoor Featuring: Nick Coleman, Emily Thornton, Holly Loach, Dr David Eagleman lostandsound.org
Lost and Sound combines intimate filming with original animation, a rich musical soundtrack (often manipulated to reveal what deafness actually sounds like), and new insights from the world’s top neuroscientists, to tell the story of the great human love affair with music.