FILM

A single-shot, choreographed portrait of the Foley process of the final sequence from The Conversation, one of the great sound-centric movies of all time. While portraying sound artists at work, typically invisible support mechanisms of filmmaking are exposed, as are, by extension and quotation, governmental violations of individual privacy. In these post-Snowden revelation times, Stratman is drawn to the power dynamics of how sound controls us, because we use less of our critical faculties to hearing than we do to seeing.