This text is the result of an inquiry into the usage of sound and music in the Latin American experimental film. The foccus is more especifically on the experiences and connections made by the filmmakers Glauber Rocha (Pátio, 1959) and Hugo Santiago (Invasión, 1969) with experimental musicians to create the soundtracks for their films. Although the films are distinct in both the duration and in the treatment mode of sound materials, they present a sound assembly that used remnants of concrete sounds and preexisting experimental music that lead to shudders in the geometrized and rational form brought by the imagery bands of the films.
This chapter explores the particularities of the soundtrack in Zama and The Headless Woman, taking into consideration some techniques in the use of sound effects and ambient sounds that are employed repeatedly. It pays special attention to the offscreen sounds, which build the world as the presence/absence of the other, in addition to showing themselves as non-diegetic sounds: sounds that do not occur in the world of the characters; an invasion that, in previous films, had not yet appeared so prominently. These absent presences lead to an intensifying sense of vertigo in the face of an uncontrollable element like an accident, an illness, or another’s decision. Martel brings us closer to her characters’ hearing through the editing of these sounds, creating an atmosphere of continuous and ever-increasing discomfort, which is displayed by the inability to recognise the objects and sound events that surround the protagonists of these films.
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Este texto pretende discutir a utilização do ruído fora-de-campo como força expressiva cênica nos filmes: Hamaca Paraguaya (2006), de Paz Encina, e La Ciénaga (2001) e La Mujer sin Cabeza (2008), ambos da diretora Lucrécia Martel. A modulação desses ruídos e sua inserção na cena como sons abruptos geram no espectador uma expectativa de algum estado novo que não é revelado pela imagem mostrada, existe uma incongruência entre o que é visto e o que é ouvido na tela.</span></span></p>
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