Cranes and Voices

Cranes and Voices grows out of an interest in sound—what it does to bodies and minds, to time and attention. Sound moves through walls, spills into spaces, and at times asserts itself to the point of reshaping how we inhabit the world. The film brings two experiences into resonance: those of people who hear voices, for whom listening becomes intimate, shifting, and difficult to contain; and those of tenants who experience the city through its noise, vibrations, and construction sites. In both cases, space tightens, and listening becomes a sensitive zone. Through practices of investigation, creation, and sharing, sound becomes a way of making perceptible what often escapes the gaze. Its spatialization becomes necessary: it allows feeling rather than explaining. Cranes and Voices invites us to listen and sense differently, to acknowledge the plurality of auditory perceptions, and to attend to what sound reveals about our shared existences.