Soundtracker (DVD)
DIRECTED BY - Nick Sherman
IndiePix Price: $24.95
RUNTIME - 82 minutes
RATING - Not Rated
YEAR - 2010
FORMAT - DVD Region 1
GENRES - documentary, Nature
Film Info
There are very few places of quiet left in the United States.
For the past thirty years, Emmy Award-winning nature sound recordist, Gordon Hempton, has made it his life’s mission to find and record these places before they are gone completely. SOUNDTRACKER follows Gordon on the road and into the wilderness as he travels throughout America’s West in search of these quiet places. Unwilling to give up when the noise of civilization intrudes upon his every recording, his quest takes on new dimensions as he begins to search for a different kind of sound that captures his imagination and the spirit of America. Shot throughout the Pacific Northwest and sound-mixed to incorporate Gordon’s own pristine binaural recordings, SOUNDTRACKER explores the sounds and the soul of an uncompromising artist.
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FESTIVALS
- Calgary International Film Festival 2010 (Calgary, Canada)
- DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2010 (Bucheon, South Korea)
- Hot Docs: Canadian International Documentary Festival 2010 (Toronto, Canada)
- MountainFilm 2010 (Telluride, United States)
- Sedona International Film Festival 2010 (Sedona, United States)
Press
“More than a compelling portrait of sound artist Gordon Hempton, Nick Sherman’s film does what all the best films do - it re-orients and re-tunes our awareness so that we experience the world in a new way, as if we’ve spent the day alone in the natural environment of our dreams.”
-Frederick Marx, Hoop Dreams
“This is a remarkable journey: a quest for imperiled Nature by an artist who never stopped listening.”
-Ken Burns
“The beautifully shot film follows Hempton for a month as he obsessively tries to capture a specific sound recording in nature...”
