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Item: Filme Mudo

Alexandre Estrela

2007

Video, variable dimensions.
Materials: 16mm film

In space there is no sound : this is something that good sci-fi film directors know. Filme mudo [Silent Film] is a 16mm film which shows a microphone on a boom pole recording the sound of a landscape. No movement is perceivable on the microphone’s windscreen-cap, since the film was created by shooting a still image. The lack of movement in the image leads to the absence of sound, which results in the creation of a silent film.

Estrela, A. Meio Concreto. Fundação de Serraves, Porto, 2013. p. 84

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