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Audio documentary by Harvard students, directed by Sharon Lockhart, at the Harvard Film ArchiveSound Safari: Bath, Maine (50 min) This audio documentary was created under the direction of Sharon Lockhart, a 2007-08 FSC-Radcliffe Fellow, as she led a group of Harvard students to Bath, Maine, for two days of location recording and composing in March of 2008. The work will be presented in conjunction with Lockhart's visit to the Harvard Film Archive for two evenings of screenings, including Lunch Break and Exit, which were also realized with the support of the FSC. The first day of Sound Safari recording began in the early morning at Southgate Family Restaurant, situated outside the south gate of the Bath Iron Works, the site of Lunchbreak and Exit, which were at the time still in progress. From there, students fanned out through the town, each with their own stereo audio recorder and microphones, meeting people and recording sounds wherever their various paths led them, until late into the evening. Recorded experiences included a fishing vessel outside of town, a high school band rehearsal, the inside of a police car, the town's solid waste facility, a conversation with an Iraq war veteran working out in the gym, and a nursery school classroom, among many others. On the second day in Bath, the students worked with Lockhart and composer Ernst Karel to begin to carefully craft an impressionistic audio documentary that brings the listener into the physical and cultural spaces of this Maine town. Safari recording participants:
Coordination by Melissa Davenport Produced at the Film Study Center Sound Safari was funded by the Josep Lluis Sert Practitioner in the Arts, the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, and the Film Study Center. The Sert Practioner grant is made possible by a gift from Robert Gardner, former director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, director of the Film Study Center, and chair of VES. |
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