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Made on a wind-up Bolex camera, The Sound of Seeing announced the arrival of 21-year-old filmmaker Tony Williams. Based around a painter and a composer wandering the city (and beyond), the film meshes music and imagery to show the duo taking inspiration from their surroundings. The Sound of Seeing served early notice on Williams' editing talents, his love of music, and his dislike of narration. It was also one of the first independently-made titles screened on Kiwi television. Composer/author Robin Maconie later wrote pioneering electronic music.
Having just left school I was eager to try my hand at making a short film. Armed with a wind up Bolex and several rolls of black and white 16mm film lent to me by John O’Shea from Pacific films, I booked ...
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This is brilliant! I wish we could be as experimental as this on tv these days. I think if I turned in a piece like this they would cut it down to a minute and have no clue what I was on about. I find the absence of narration inspiring! Its a very cool film.
Pacific Films
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Another young filmmaker's experiments with sound & image
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Chris Bourke
Posted at 03.56PM - 07.05.2011
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