The Sound of Wood
The Sound of Wood
by Emelie Victoria Isaksen and Margherita Vita
The Sound of Wood
Video • 11:00 • Italy • Italian
In two villages in Southern Italy, Basilicata, we follow Vincenzo and Quirino as they shape zampognas from wood of surrounding forests. Vincenzo seeks the perfect timbre with an almost scientific ear. Quirino remembers the history of music in the region, and listens differently - the sound emerges from the process itself. For both, music renews bonds to the landscape and their community. The film invites you to notice connections between forests, wood and sound and open up conversations around affections, materiality, community traditions, ecologies, entanglements and futures.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Margherita Vita (she/they) is an Italian researcher coming from Master studies in anthropology and environmental history, with research experience on extractivism and political ecology in Chile, Mozambique and Italy. The recent interest in visual anthropology and filmmaking is part of her research effort to decolonize her own methods and storytelling.
Emelie Victoria Isaksen (she/they) is a Swedish/Norwegian artist and researcher whose work sits at the intersection of political ecology and multimodal ethnographic practice. Her projects take a multi species approach to examine how regimes of conservation, extraction, and care are negotiated through everyday practices and sensory encounters.
