interview
Women Cinemakers
Sound plays an important role in your video and we have appreciated the way the minimalistic soundtrack by Asa Sexton-Greenberg provides with such an and a bit as well as the way you have sapiently structured the combination between and : how do you see ? The song was commissioned especially for this film. Asa’s music is multi-layered, it has a sense of depth and poetry to it. We thought his work would be the perfect fit for the world we were trying to create, and the soundscape works as a vehicle for the viewer to feel and experienced the film with a deeper sensibility. The sounds have a visceral effect, and are at times intense but also delicate. We also like the idea of juxtaposing the music’s synthetic quality with the natural images in order to bring out its organic and mutable aspects. - Asa’s composition also gave us a lot to work with in the edit- the contrasting sections really supported the variety of images we had come up with in shooting, as by this point especially we had realized that it was more important to let the studies’ differences come out than to try to make everything of the same tone. The first section allows us to build anticipation, or climax at the end when it returns, and then the part in the middle with the vocals