23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Americana

Sound Barrier

Sound Barrier

Country: USA
Year: 2005
Duration: 107'


Jesse, an eleven-year-old deaf-mute, finally has a way to discover the truth about his mother's death. He leaves Manhattan for Queens with a letter and key to a warehouse, but the voyage is only the first and the easiest of many obstacles, beginning with the difficulty of understanding what is recorded on the music cassette he finds in a room inside the warehouse.
"All of my experience over the years in making films came together in this film, to a point that I had wanted to reach all my life. In making Sound Barrier I discovered how much I could push beyond my limits, and in so doing learned many things about myself and my work. Sound Barrier told me I could begin a film I have been planning for years, as the second part of my sound trilogy. It was one of the reasons I left my country. A film about the moon. I have always had a dream of being on the moon; it is exactly where I want to be. This is the beginning of a new path for me." (A. Naderi)

Biography

film director

Amir Naderi

Amir Naderi (Iran, 1946) reaches international recognition in the early ‘80 with films like The Runner and Water, Wind, Dust. He moved to New York at the end of the 80s, where he spent over ten years filming a trilogy dedicated to the American metropolis: Manhattan By Numbers (1993), A, B, C… Manhattan (1997), and Marathon (2002). Sound Barrier is the first of a new trilogy that explores and studies sounds and soundtracks as dramatic elements.

FILMOGRAFIA

Khodahafez rafigh (Goodbye Friend, 1971), Tanga (Strait, 1973), Tangsir (Tight Spot, 1974), Saz Dahani (Harmonica, 1974), Entezar (cm, Waiting, 1974), Sakhte Iran (Made in Iran, 1978), Marsieh (Elegy, 1978), Jostoju (Search, 1980), Jostoju-ye dovvom (Second Search, 1981), Barandeh (The Winner, 1984), Davandeh (Il corridore, 1985), Aab, baad, khaak (Acqua, vento, sabbia, 1989), Manhattan by numbers (id., 1993), A, B, C… Manhattan (id., 1997), Marathon (id., 2002), Sound Barrier (2005).

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