2025 | USA | Experimental

Focus and Sound

  • English 6 mins
  • Director | Marcella Kwe
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Production

This film is currently not available.   

This is a series of two short experimental films. They can be screened together, or apart. It reimagines mid-century 16mm educational films through a practice of deep listening and material intervention. Drawn from archival films once shown in American classrooms—many focused on Native American history and U.S. civics—the works are edited blind: the video image is physically obscured, and the structure assembled entirely through sound. Guided solely by listening, each film is built through cuts of the audio tracks only, without post-production manipulation or audio treatment—resulting in a sonic collage where meaning emerges from rhythm, tone, and interruption. Only after the edit is complete is the image revealed—becoming a kind of accidental score.

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