What should have been a film.
In the darkness of the cinema, this experiment unfolds as a listening experience shaped by an encounter between the filmmaker and Kesira and her family. Guided by voices moving across time, languages and registers, the experiment invites collective listening.
In the darkness of the cinema, this experiment unfolds as a listening experience shaped by an encounter between the filmmaker and Kesira and her family. Guided by voices moving across time, languages and registers, the experiment invites collective listening.
The voices carry Chechen poems, songs and personal stories, sharing fragments of everyday life and memories shaped by decades of war, displacement and survival in Chechnya.
Mostly absent of images, combining song, poems, conversations and field recordings, what remains is voice: intimate, persistent, searching, an ode to listening, and to the home as a site of transmission.
This is a work in progress that seeks to test how listening operates collectively in the cinema.
