CCAM + YSC + Yale RITM Present: 32 Sounds by Sam Green
32 Sounds is an immersive documentary and profound sensory experience from filmmaker Sam Green that explores the elemental phenomenon of sound. The film is a meditation on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.
It exists in two unique and equally exciting forms: one for a live audience, complete with individual headphones for each audience member and featuring live narration by Sam Green and live original music by JD Samson; and another specifically designed for a completely immersive at-home or theatrical experience. 32 Sounds will be at Yale in its live form with narration by Sam Green.
32 Sounds premiered in January 2022 at the Sundance Film Festival, and was an official selection of the 2022 SXSW Film Festival. Visit 32sounds.com for more information about the theatrical/streaming version of 32 Sounds and upcoming live performances.
Produced by ArKtype, The Department of Motion Pictures, Impact Partners, Wavelength Productions and Free History Project. Commissioned by Stanford Live, Stanford University; The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi; Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Institute of Technology; Green Music Center of Sonoma State University; Arizona Arts Live! at University of Arizona ; and developed through a creative residency at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
32 Sounds is presented by CCAM in partnership with Yale Schwarzman Center and the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM), as well as Film and Media Studies, African American Studies, and the Family Pictures Institute for Inclusive Storytelling.
The collaboration grows from a submission to CCAM’s Open Call by filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris, Professor in the Practice in Film and Media Studies and African American Studies at Yale, and the creator of the Family Pictures Institute for Inclusive Storytelling. The showing is in conjunction with his Film and Media Studies course Family Narratives/Cultural Shifts, cross-listed with African American Studies.