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Stories of a ruined space: filmic and sonic approaches to practice-as-research
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-09, 15:16 authored by Christopher BrownChristopher Brown, Andrew Knight-HillThis article reflects on the authors’ work in investigating how audiovisual practices might represent the experience of disused or ruined structures. With backgrounds in visual and sound practice respectively, the authors have, in their most recent experimental film project Coccolith [UK: Coccolith Productions], conceived the Ramsgate wartime tunnels in Kent as a point of collision for divergent artistic approaches to the representation of space. Challenging the site’s association with wartime mythology, the project sought to reconfigure the relationship between film and sound practice in order to articulate an alternative representation of the tunnels’ history, heritage and temporality. The article reflects on the role of the sound designer in developing soundscapes that embodied the ruined space, and on the role of the director in visually conceiving a spatial experience of the tunnels characterized by the absence of sound – silence. We argue that in conceiving an audiovisual project in terms of texture and gesture, it is possible to reconceptualize both the role of the soundtrack in relation to a film’s diegesis, and the role of the director in relation to sound design.
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Accepted version
Journal
Media Practice and EducationISSN
2574-1136Publisher
Taylor and FrancisExternal DOI
Issue
3Volume
19Page range
313-325Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
Notes
Part of a special issue "Filmmaking in the Academy"Full text available
- Yes
Peer reviewed?
- Yes