THE SAME VIEW WHREVER YOU LOOK

Dance Shortfilm.
Director:
Carmen Bamba
Year:
2024

🏆 AWARDED - BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM - PRISMA ROME INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS

Awarded at the Prisma independent film festival for Best Experimental Piece and Best Poster.

The sound project stems from Carmen Bamba's need to create a dystopian universe in which the choreography by Luna Sánchez expresses the anxiety generated by modern times, and consequently, the irreversibility of society.

The sound piece is primarily built from field recordings such as trains, ambient sounds, impacts, electrical failures, creating a color palette suitable for the main idea.

The entire piece, both visually and sonically, is designed to be viewed in reverse; therefore, the sounds are also reversed to create a mirror sensation.

The rhythm is based on a bulería rhythm, created by fragmenting these samples of real noises. As the piece progresses, the rhythm becomes blurred, eventually turning into a climax of rigid rhythm, contrasting with the rhythmic freedom of bulería. This conceptual shift reinforces the underlying idea of the video. At the end of the piece, we hear the bulería again but in reverse, aiming to return to the beginning, but everything becomes more blurry and unattainable.

The music attempts to hide in the background, where the noises take the lead, and the cadence is a sound cloud inspired by dystopia, urbanism, darkness, and the borderline of the human being. Prioritizing rhythm over melody accompanies the choreography, keeping the ear in a continuous search for patterns and outcomes, which we precisely aim to break with this audiovisual concept.

The piece itself is experimental and daring but maintains a clear rhythmic and electronic component, abrupt yet minimalist.