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Sound Spring

(Catalina Alvarez, 2024)

Catalina Alvarez in person

World Premiere

Info & Tickets

An individual is standing on a balcony facing away, there are unicycles leaning up against the railing.

Oct 19, 2024 4:30 PM

Film/Video Theater

$8 members and adults 55 and over
$10 general public
$5 students

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Catalina Alvarez presents a documentary as unconventional as the town and inhabitants it observes.

Unfolding in a series of eight vignettes, Sound Spring explores the unique story of the small town of Yellow Springs, Ohio. Tracing more than 100 years of history, the film is narrated by its residents in comical sequences: one interviewee rollerblades and reads the village’s water meters, another stands on his head in a breakdancing freeze. American history comes to life in their descriptions—ancestors’ settlements after slavery, a friendship with Coretta Scott King, Ohio’s Trail of Tears—among other more personal details of small-town life. The wording of their recollections is imperfect, unsure, because they are all recreations of previous audio interviews. By interacting with their own recorded media, villagers uncover layers of time and storytelling. Sound Spring was supported by the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio and Alvarez was the 2020 Ohio Shorts Jury Award winner. (95 mins., DCP)

See the complete Unorthodocs 2024 lineup.

IMAGE CAPTION
Sound Spring, courtesy of the filmmaker.

Watch: “A chat with Catalina Jordan Alvarez & Clare Gundersen,” Jennifer Lange and Holly Leber

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Unorthodocs 2024 is part of the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial: backstories.

FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council 
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services 
Mellon Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
Nationwide Foundation
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
The Columbus Foundation
Axium Packaging

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang
Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle