32 Sounds – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

32 SOUNDS (SXSW 2022) – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

March 14, 2022March 16, 2022 Valerie Kalfrin 32 Sounds, sam green, sxsw 2022

Calling 32 Sounds a documentary doesn’t do it justice. Playing at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival, this film is an enjoyably interactive and thoughtful exploration of sound, how it triggers emotions and transports us through memory. The film has the loose feel of a project that director Sam Green noodled around with as the mood struck—which seems appropriate for the subject and his execution. Although Green’s recent films such as 2018’s A Thousand Thoughts focus on musicians and live performances, 32 Sounds is a more inward journey, aiming to immerse viewers in an experience.

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32 SOUNDS (SXSW 2022) – Review by Leslie Combemale

March 12, 2022March 13, 2022 Leslie Combemale 32 Sounds, Annea Lockwood, Christine Sun Kim, documentaries, JD Samson, Sam Greene, sxsw 2022

Director Sam Greene’s emotional and experimental documentary 32 Sounds makes the viewer or listener feel gloriously bathed in sound for over an hour and a half. It is a meditation on its power. The film allows and invites you to consider sound in ways perhaps, unless you’re a sound technician or sound artist, you haven’t considered it before. It cycles through 32 unique auditory experiences that bend and manipulate perception as only sound can.