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Big Ears Listen with Feet

20220.0 / 1094 min
Documentary

Overview

Artist-filmmakers Bêka & Lemoine take us to Bangkok on a one day hectic journey through the chaotic concrete jungle of the South-Asian megacity. Led by the moving personal story of Boonserm Premthada, one of today's most important Thai architects, the film unfolds through a free wander, punctuated by stunning encounters, events and places, which have contributed to shape Premthada's unique identity and sensibility. Deaf from birth, the architect evokes how his disability led him to develop an alternative way of listening using his whole body as a resonance chamber of sound vibrations. Despite their large ears, elephants also perceive sound mostly through their feet. Learning from elephants, Boonserm has developed an architecture of the senses where sound vibrations become the voice of space.

Cast

Boonserm Premthada

Boonserm Premthada

Self

Crew

Louise Lemoine

Louise Lemoine

Director

Ila Bêka

Ila Bêka

Director

Louise Lemoine

Louise Lemoine

Sound Engineer

Ila Bêka

Ila Bêka

Cinematography