CENTERPIECE GALA

New England Premiere 32 SOUNDS

USA 2022 - 95 minutes, in English

Director, Screenplay: Sam Green

Producers: Josh Penn, ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann

Print Courtesy: Sam Green

Tuesday, July 12 7:30 P.M. | WOH

Though Sam Green’s co-directed breakout documentary, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, received an Oscar nomination, in recent years it’s his live presentations combining film with live music and other collaborations with artists including The Kronos Quartet that have spurred his prodigious inventiveness. He returns to MIFF with 32 SOUNDS, an experience you will not be able to have the same way again—it’s only performed live—and with which you’ll be thrilled. It’s both an immersive documentary and a profound sensory experience, performed on stage with Sam’s live narration and his sound crew, and featuring original music by JD Samson (of the bands Le Tigre and MEN). The film explores the elemental phenomenon of sound by weaving together 32 sound explorations into a cinematic meditation on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us. Headphones will be provided to each audience member for this unique experience. —Ken Eisen Sponsored by David and Kim Hallee / Boy Locksmith

Tatiana Huezo has only been writing and directing films for a tad over a decade now, but she has already established herself as being among the world’s most distinctive, accomplished, and just plain strong filmmakers. Born in El Salvador, she has lived and fashioned her career in Mexico, though her films span much of Latin America. While she is already a regular on the podium for honors at Mexico’s Ariel awards, international recognition is everywhere, including a Director’s Guild of America nomination for NOCHE DE FUEGO. The world we see in her films, be they documentaries or fiction films, is the truth, unblinking yet beautiful, painful yet vibrant and, above all, human, often using imagery and capturing life’s vibrancy with an unshowy yet unforgettable and deep power. There’s a world to discover in Tatiana’s work. Or rather, many worlds. —Ken Eisen

Sunday, July 10 12:00 P.M. | RR3

Tuesday, July 12 3:15 P.M. | RR2