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  • 2023
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2023
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary 32 Sounds is an immersive feature documentary and profound sensory experience from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground) featuring original music by JD Samson (Le Tigre, MEN). The film explores the elemental phenomenon of sound by weaving together 32 specific sound explorations into a cinematic meditation...

Directed By: Sam Green

  • 2023
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2023
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 35 m

32 Sounds

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Summary 32 Sounds is an immersive feature documentary and profound sensory experience from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground) featuring original music by JD Samson (Le Tigre, MEN). The film explores the elemental phenomenon of sound by weaving together 32 specific sound explorations into a cinematic meditation...

Directed By: Sam Green

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100
Nov 8, 2023
This is a rare film and a rare use of cinema. Other documentaries are like filmed news stories. This one is like a poem. If you see this, you will never again think of hearing in quite the same way, and you will hear sounds that are so haunting that they will be with you for the rest of your life.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
100
May 2, 2023
The sounds are finite, yet the benefits of tuning in to the film’s wavelengths are endless. It’s the greatest documentary you’ve ever heard.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
90
May 19, 2023
At its best, 32 Sounds gets us to consider the transformative, context-rich qualities of any given swath of audio.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
90
Mar 29, 2022
While there’s certainly a specific charm to seeing 32 Sounds live (particularly during a five-minute interactive dance break, when Green invites audience members to walk up to the stage and feel the quaking power of a pair of subwoofers as Samson acts as D.J.), the filmed narrative is engaging and richly visual enough that 32 Sounds would still achieve many of its most spectacular effects at home, preferably through a pair of good headphones.
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90
Mar 13, 2022
32 Sounds serves as a glorious pastiche of interviews with sound makers, found footage concerning sound, and interactive experiments for audience members to participate in.
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75
Apr 28, 2023
Green’s approach as the narrator is sometimes a little too “gee whillikers” to suit the tastes of this grumpy old man, but 32 Sounds hit my sound and vision sweet spot just fine most of the time.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 27, 2023
32 Sounds wants nothing more than to send audiences back out into the world with ears wide open. With the on-screen help of Le Tigre musician and co-conspirator JD Samson, Green accomplishes that goal so well that it feels like he probably could’ve gotten the job done with just 16 sounds instead, but this playful and aggressively pleasant little film is an easy sit, and the strength of its individual episodes — in addition to the echoes that resonate between them — helps to absolve the discordant chaos of their arrangement.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW

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Production Company ArKtype, Department of Motion Pictures, Impact Partners, Wavelength
Release Date Apr 28, 2023
Duration 1 h 35 m
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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 2 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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