Synopsis:
A little girl with four arms. An immortal jellyfish. The mourning of the future we had imagined. An essay on what remains when a dream dies.
Director: Morgane Frund
Screenplay: Morgane Frund
Production: Modular work 2nd BA 2021, major in Video
University of Lucerne - Design & Art / Morgane Frund
Camera: Anaïs Bourgogne
Assistant Camera / Location Sound: Léon Hüsler
Editing: Morgane Frund
Music: Vivian Wang
Sound Mix: Vivian Wang
This thesis develops the concept of Sonic Fluidity as a viable practice for exploring malleable perspectives in sound and advocates for a broader, more inclusive approach to contemporary art and sonic practice through the hearing of shared volumes and the sounding out of hidden realms of sonic possibility. Through the sound art works of artists like Christine Sun Kim and Jana Winderen, sonic contexts that engage with different subjectivities and multiple modalities are analysed, to observe how diverse sensory and artistic processes can frame and resonate sonic bodies through the act of listening to and with others. I reflect on what constitutes a sense of fluidity, how embodiment, situatedness and multisensing might inform and augment creative methodology. I examine different theoretical perspectives for transforming sonic perception into a polyphonic experience of diverse resonances, to uncover what it means to set certain resonances into vibration in order to materialise the invisible, the formless and the abstract. The writing addresses the following questions – What is audibility? How do we amplify the unseen, the unheard and the unknown? What can be done to interrogate and queer the limits of sonic modalities to vocalise otherness? How can sonic sensibility be reconfigured to articulate multidimensional spaces and provoke reconciliation with other worlds? In pursuing non-normative multimodal practices, sonic fluidity becomes the feeling of being inside sound, manifestly present in moments of transformation, ready to traverse plural sonic worlds.
Throughout 2020, I observed that the way I listen had changed. My social and physical interactions had shrunk but conversely, my gaze into the outside world became larger, roomier. This is curious, not least because of an ever expanding imagination, but something about time started to feel different. I had become more aware of what I hear, even small or barely perceptible sounds. For months, I lived a mundane existence, taking a cold swim midday, everyday in the Limmat. I frequently walked across the Viaduct in Zürich, not far from where I live, from one end to the other, often late at night. Sounds criss-crossed like lines of energy, of people zigzagging across the park below and the frequent passing of trains just above. Occasional piercing shards of trams arriving and leaving, blending with industry, traffic, trees and animals, all filtered through the centuries’ old stone arches. My flat is on the 6th floor with a window facing a strange triangular plot of three buildings framing a distant and often mist-laden Uetliberg (mountain). Straddling two dead end streets, these buildings bustle with life behind glass windows into which I spend hours looking and contemplating. For this film, I wanted to share sonic explorations on three different planes that directly mirror the environments I moved through daily. These planes differ in height, but also present very different sonic experiences. Detail, imperceptibility, love, fascination, sensation, pleasure, energies both human and animal, proliferate and amplify a world that reveals more with closer attention. The images are taken with a smart phone and set to a soundtrack composed entirely from field recordings of these three planes over a period of 4 weeks.
Not Today is a story about two lost souls, Jerome and Britt, who arrange to meet under an old tree. It’s Christmas Eve and they are deep in the woods. They begin a solemn ritual. Feeling timid, Jerome soon has doubts about the promise they made to each other.
Starring: Oliver Jordan Tewelde & Louise Debatin
Written & directed by: Lara Jacobs
Production manager: Zoé Kugler
Assistant director: Valerio Alexander Johler
Director of Photography: Tobias Wanner
Editor: Gina Calamassi
Sound design: Oscar van Hoogevest
Music: Vivian Wang
Production Design: Eulalie Déguénon & India Demirci
Additional graphic design: Anja Irniger
Gaffer: Pascal Kohler
Lighting technicians: Niculin Felix & Carla Maiolino
1st assistant camera: Nevin George
2nd assistant camera & DIT: Daniel Loepfe
Sound recordist: Oscar van Hoogevest
Additional boom operator: Seraina Scherini
Additional make-up: Larissa Thaler
Additional lighting: Aiyana De Vree
Unit manager: Balazs Gyenes
Catering: Shaleen Singh
Runners: Till Gerber & Gabriel Grosclaude
Driver: Stephan Eigenmann
Covid-19 compliance supervisor: Jan-David Bolt
Color grading: Lukas Gut
Visual effects: Daniel Loepfe
Graphic & title designer: Zoé Kugler
Sound mix: Gregg Skerman & Patrycja Pakiela
Opening track: Oliver Jordan Tewelde
Extras: Roy Edwards, Larissa Kiers, Sandro Graf
Special thanks to:
Haferholzkorporation Dielsdorf, Stephan Huber
Gemeinde Dielsdorf, Leonardo Bernaschina
Fischer’s Bio Gemüse
Steiner Flughafenbeck
Kompotoi
Karin & Roman Gähler
Stefan Peterhans
Olesia Litich
Gian Courtin
Marco Quandt
Ralph Wetli
Juliette Szott
Fabienne Koch
Jann Preuss & Micha Lewinsky
Linda Gunst & Fabian Guggisberg
Helene Eigenmann
Lia Dellers & Ambra Peyer
Study project
«Figur & Konflikt»
Spring semester 2021
Project mentoring: Thomas Gerber & Peter Luisi
Mentor editing: Michael Schaerer & Bernadette Kolonko
Line producer: Filippo Bonacci
Bachelor of arts in film
Programme director: Sabine Boss