Past Film/Video | Visiting Filmmakers

32 Sounds

(Sam Green, 2022)

Sam Green in person
With music composed by JD Samson and performed by JD Samson and Michael O’Neill

Ohio Premiere

Sam Green wears a black button down, long sleeve shirt untucked atop dark blue jeans. He has close cropped dark hair. He is inside a sound booth and holds a long microphone and wears headphones.
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Sep 29, 2022 8:00 PM
Mershon Auditorium

$6 access
$12 members, seniors, and students (suggested)
$18 general public (suggested)
$36 access sponsor

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By providing personal choice on ticket pricing, we seek to reduce barriers to the arts. Please choose the ticket price that is right for you based on your own needs. If you are able, please consider paying access sponsor pricing, which generously supports these efforts to provide access to our communities.

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Open captions will be available for this presentation.

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall at accessibility@wexarts.org or via telephone at (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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Explore the profound impact of sound on our perception of the world around us in Sam Green’s new live documentary experience, 32 Sounds.

Muffled murmurs inside the womb. The loud silence of John Cage’s landmark composition 4’33”. The lonely, haunting mating call of the last Moho braccatus, a now extinct Hawaiian bird. Sam Green’s new documentary poetically weaves together these and other sonic vignettes, encouraging us to contemplate our humanity—and our mortality. Guiding us through this world of sound is the film’s cast, which includes Deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim, poet and scholar Fred Moten, foley artist Joanna Fang, and experimental composer Annea Lockwood. (98 mins., digital video)

The film is accompanied live in Mershon Auditorium by Green’s narration and an original score by JD Samson (Le Tigre and MEN), who’ll perform onstage alongside Michael O’Neill. On entry you’ll be given a set of headphones that—like the film itself—will help you consider and experience sound in new ways. 

Come early for a reception from 6:30 to 8 PM in Mershon Auditorium's lobby and enjoy complimentary popcorn and a cash bar. Stick around after the performance for a Q&A with the artists!

See the complete Sam Green: 25 Years in Film lineup.

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"Bursting with humor, emotion and curiosity…a uniquely mind-expanding plunge into a dimension of the human experience so many of us take for granted."
Variety
Sam Green wears a black button down, long sleeve shirt untucked atop dark blue jeans. He has close cropped dark hair. He is inside a sound booth and holds a long microphone and wears headphones.

Sam Green in 32 Sounds, image courtesy of ArkType.

Christine Sun Kim has blond hair with light blue highlights that touches her shoulders. She wears thin, round eyeglasses and sit in a room with a white couch and fireplace with photos and other items on the mantle. Kim is speaking in sign language, and the subtitle word reads "E-P-I-P-H-A-N-Y."

32 Sounds, image courtesy of ArkType.

An image of a round stopwatch being gripped by four fingers and a thumb. A small microphone is held just next to it recording its sound.

32 Sounds, image courtesy of ArkType.

The face of a person with white, shaggy hair just over their ears. They are laughing and their face is scrunched up with their eyes narrowed into slits and their mouth agape.

32 Sounds, image courtesy of ArkType.

Fred Moten sits with his eyes closed and a slight smile on his lips. He wears black eyeglasses with square frames. He is in what appears to be an office with a desk behind him, upon which sits a computer. Bookshelves are on both sides of the room.

32 Sounds, image courtesy of ArkType.

An overhead image of three people destroying a piano on a street

32 Sounds, image courtesy of ArkType.

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Copresented by the Wexner Center’s Departments of Performing Arts and Film/Video.

Produced by ArKtype, The Department of Motion Pictures, Impact Partners, Wavelength Productions, and the 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; and Arizona Arts Live! at University of Arizona. Developed through a creative residency at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Cardinal Health

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

FILM/VIDEO STUDIO SUPPORTED IN PART BY
National Endowment for the Arts

PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Arts Council
L Brands Foundation
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Mike and Paige Crane
Axium Packaging
CampusParc
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
President Kristina M. Johnson and Mrs. Veronica Meinhard
Nancy Kramer
Larry and Donna James
Lisa Barton
Johanna DeStefano
Jones Day
Alex and Renée Shumate

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32 Sounds

Sep 29, 2022 8:00 PM EST
Mershon Auditorium

$6 access
$12 members, seniors, and students (suggested)
$18 general public (suggested)
$36 access sponsor

We believe the arts are for everyone.
By providing personal choice on ticket pricing, we seek to reduce barriers to the arts. Please choose the ticket price that is right for you based on your own needs. If you are able, please consider paying access sponsor pricing, which generously supports these efforts to provide access to our communities.

Click here to view our latest COVID-19 protocols.

ACCESSIBILITY

Open captions will be available for this presentation.

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall at accessibility@wexarts.org or via telephone at (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

Become a Member