It will be shown on 9 November at the Festival Slobody in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Can art be used to create new ways of remembrance? Sound in the Silence 2016 documentary shows the backstage emotions, interactions, inspirations, opinions - everything that led to the creation of the final performance.
It depicts the workshop process and the daily routines as well as the relations between high school students and artists from five different countries, representing various national and personal backgrounds. The film crew - director Daniel Dluhy, along with sound recordist and sound mixer Samo Skubla and assistant Juliana Gubisova - accompanied the Sound in the Silence team from their visit to the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, through historical and artistic workshops, up till the Final Performance. In their documentary, they explore how we can learn to use means of artistic expression to process history and convey our understanding of resistance.
The documentary will be shown during the Freedom Festival (Festival Slobody) 9 November, 5:00 pm at Kino Lumière in Bratislava, Slovakia.