Born in 1947, Michel Chion is a composer, filmmaker, historian and writer – and arguably the world’s foremost thinker on sound in cinema.
For this event, Michel Chion presented a lecture performance tracing a history of the ‘acousmêtre’ – Chion’s term for the mysterious off-screen voice in cinema, through his own oeuvre and the works of Bresson, Lang, Syberberg, Spike Jonze and more.
https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/michel-chion
Histories and Theories of Sound
25 August, 2017
Australian Cinémathéque, QAGOMA
Presented by Liquid Architecture, Australian Cinémathèque, QAGOMA and INSTITUT FRANÇAIS
Audio: Mara Schwerdtfeger
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