cinema of noise

An Indigenous mother rises in Chilean politics when she is caught in the crossfire of a polarised nation. On her way to work, Fabiola Campillai was blinded when she was shot in the face with a tear gas canister by police during Chile’s 2019 uprising. Despite having no experience in politics, the Indigenous mother and former factory worker decides to fight for justice and run for parliament.

Whalebone Films

Commissioned by Al Jazeera

25 mins • Stereo mix

Director: Chloe White & Jodie Taylor

Sound Editor and Re-recording Mixer: Rob Szeliga

Part autobiography, part film collage, Khoshbakht’s film offers a fascinating insight into the lives of those who fight to keep film culture alive in the face of oppression. Centring on two maverick cinephiles from Iran – the director himself and his late friend Ahmad Jurghanian – this poignant work is a testament to the power of cinema and its potential as an act of resistance.

Viennale 2023 interview with the director here

2024 Guardian review here

80 mins • 5.1 / stereo

Director: Ehsan Khoshbakht

Sound Design and Re-recording Mixer: Rob Szeliga

Through My Window is an experimental short documentary film, which was shot during the early days of motherhood. This piece is a conversation about what does it mean to be a mother and expectations that comes with it. The film intuitively captures daily repetitions, monotonous activities, and brief, cherished child moments, which accompanied my experiences, while trying to make sense of my new role as a mother. The time was fleeting, my child was growing and I was slowly realising motherhood significance and a meaning towards a deeper understanding of the ephemeral everyday experience that ultimately shape our human existence.

16 mins • 5.1 / stereo

Director: Kristina Cranfeld

Sound Design: Rob Szeliga

Through a series of intimate, and at times, uncomfortable, conversations, 1001 DAYS presents a snapshot of motherhood in Alexandra, South Africa during the crucial first three years of life.

Whalebone Films

More information: https://1001daysmovie.com/

95 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Kethiwe Ngcobo & Chloe While

Supervising Sound Editor: Rob Szeliga
Dialogue Editor: John Cohen
Re-recording Mixer: Rob Szeliga & John Cohen

SUNFLOWER

Having been born the uear of the Fukushima nuclear disaster ten year old Eri has grown up in the shadows of the event that defined her hometown, despite having no recollection of it herself. When her family joins a local sunflower planting group who are hoping to rid the soil of toxins, she begins to learn more about the memories of those around her.

AFTER ASBESTOS

Shot in Canada, After Asbestos follows three octogenarians as their beloved town, Asbestos, teeters on the brink of huge change. Each still have their heart in the mine that brought their town so much prosperity and defined each of their lives; but now the reputation of asbestos as a toxic substance is causing the town to vote on changing its name. An intimate portrait of how it feels to watch everything you’ve known and loved change as you enter life’s final chapter.

LAND OF FIRES

In and around Naples, a band of local residents have formed a vigilante justice group in the face of a rising death toll attributed to the illegal dumping of toxic waste. Can this unlikely group of ill-equipped grassroots activists make a difference in the face of the infamous ‘Camorra’ (an Italian criminal organisation) and industrial corporations who are poisoning their land?

Commission for Topic series Manmade Monsters

Whalebone Films

24 mins x 3 • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Chloe White

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

Cinema Now is a short, observational documentary film (presented in the contemporary 'Direct Cinema' style) and shot entirely on KODAK Vision3 Super 8mm Film. The film depicts closed cinemas from the point of view of passers-by, taking a moments pause and looking patiently at building exteriors and facades.

More information here

14 mins • 5.1 / stereo mix

Director: Louis Holder

Sound Design and Music: Rob Szeliga

Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story

Emerging from years in isolation to an enraptured crowd, a time-travelling, transgender musical genius finally finds his place in the world. As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home-studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid, a sound realised far before its time. 

Three decades on, the musician – now Glenn Copeland – began to receive emails from people across the world, thanking him for the music they’d recently discovered. Courtesy of a rare-record collector in Japan, a reissue of Keyboard Fantasies and subsequent plays by Four Tet, Caribou and more, the music had finally found its audience two generations down the line. Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story, tells the time-travelling tale of this mystical musician and vocalist, as the present finally catches up with him and he embarks on his first international tour at the age of 74.

Capturing five decades of relentless musical output and shifting manifestations of gender and sexual identity set against a backdrop of profound social change, the film celebrates the unpredictable rhythms of life. A lullaby to soothe those souls struggling to find their place in the world.

75 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

​Director: Posy Dixon
Producer: Liv Proctor
Editor: Tim Beeston 
Supervising Sound Editor: John Cohen
Re-recording Mixer: Rob Szeliga

Upcoming Screenings: 

Saturday 2nd November 2019: World premiere & artist Q+A at London's Barbican Centre / Doc'n Roll Film Festival (SOLD OUT).

Sunday 3rd November 2019: Screening & artist Q+A at The Castle Cinema, E5, London. Tickets available here. 

Sunday 8th December 2019: US premier & live performance with Beverly Glenn-Copeland and friends at MoMA PS1 New York. Tickets & info available here.  

BAFTA nominee 2022 - Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer

Village Hours tells the story of Britain’s village halls. Dotted across the countryside, these timeworn structures are the stages upon which local identities, tensions and rituals are all played out. Taking in a thwarted pantomime rehearsal, dreamlike dance displays and a macabre local history presentation; Village Hours explores the people, practices and passing moments which make up contemporary rural life.

www.Becktonalpcinema.com

10 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Matthew Reed

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

In the forgotten regions of Southern Italy, a filmmaker announces a casting call looking for individuals to star in a film about themselves and their divided town.

80 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: David Alamouti

Sound Designer: John Cohen & Rob Szeliga

Long before COVID-19 had consumed the world, Roxanne and Rachel were well acquainted with mask wearing and self isolation. Both women believe they suffer from an allergy to WIFI. Not just wifi, but cell phones, computers, most electronics, perfumes, washing powders and a whole host of other general 21st century commodities. So extreme have their respective conditions become that single mum Roxanne has been forced to leave her 10-year-old daughter and move into a car parked as close to the ocean as she can get it, and Rachel has fled the country to a remote area of Portugal.

Canary follows Roxanne and Rachel as they desperately search for somewhere to call home, where they can shelter from the onward march of modern life, and where Roxanne can be reunited with her young daughter.

Commission for Topic • Whalebone Films

24 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Chloe White

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

A documentary adventure recounting the incredible life story of British-born Amazonian cowboy and former US TV star, Stan Brock, who sacrificed everything for his unwavering mission to resolve the US healthcare crisis. Coming in 2021.

More information here.

Premiere at Nashville Film Festival 2020

90 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Paul Michael Angell

Sound Editors: Rob Szeliga, John Cohen

Re-recording Mixers: Rob Szeliga, John Cohen

Having fled from Syria, Wafa is trying to settle her family into their new life in North London. She has not seen her eldest son, Yasser, in seven years. In the lead up to Ramadan, each of the family members share their unique perspectives on their new circumstances as they learn to adjust to their statuses as 'refugees' in the UK. Exploring the family's own footage of their life in Syria before, and during, the civil war, THE EDGE OF HOME is a meditation on family, humanity, and acceptance of circumstances that are beyond one's control.

Film online here.

12 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Celine Cotran

Sound Editor: Rob Szeliga

Re-recording Mixer: Rob Szeliga

The Hastings fish market has closed, the lorries from France that would normally fill up with fresh fish every morning have stopped coming. The local pubs and restaurants are shut. The world is on coronavirus lockdown. But for Europe’s largest beach-launched fishing fleet, there is no stopping them.

Boats can be seen each day from the beaches of Hastings, punctuating the seascape. Paul’s family have been fishing since records began. Generations of fishermen who have survived huge societal, political and environmental change. COVID-19 presents yet another upheaval that Paul and his colleagues must adapt to. Despite huge changes to their customer base, Paul has already seen some positives such as local people experimenting with the fish they cook: huss, skate, sole and plaice. Self-isolation on a boat isn’t possible, but the fishermen are working in small groups trying to keep themselves safe and, as food providers, to understand the crucial role they serve in the current climate.

In this poignant and moving documentary, Chloe White reflects on the adaptable nature of the Hastings fishing fleet in light of Covid-19. Filmed in Lockdown is a series of new works of literary, musical, visual, and performance arts, commissioned for #CultureinQuarantine by Arts Council England and BBC Arts.

6 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Chloe White / Whalebone Films

Music & Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

A hybrid between Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and BBC’s Planet Earth comes E14, a short documentary peeping into the day-to-day activities of different neighbors keeping busy during the 2020 lockdown. A desolate yet snarky look into the trauma that bonds us all across the globe.

Hot Springs Documentary Festival 2020 - Screening online Oct 9th - 17th here

19 mins • Stereo / 5.1 mix

Director: Peiman Zekavat

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

Here I Am is a 10-minute documentary about how dance has helped a group of vulnerable women in Bradford but how, during the Covid 19 lockdown, the opportunity to dance has been very hard or impossible for the women and it has been deeply missed. The film documents the women’s creative response to lockdown and explores how dance will continue to be a tool that empowers all the women as we emerge out of the Covid-19 crisis.

More information: http://www.duy.org.uk/dance-united-yorkshire

11 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Whalebone Films

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

An older couple leave Tehran and return to their idyllic home town on the Turkish border, but their dreams of quiet retirement are shattered by the realisation that their town has become a smuggling gateway into Europe.

Premiere at Visions du Réel in April 2020.

20 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Abolfazl Talooni

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

More information to follow shorty.


15 mins • Stereo / 5.1 mix

Director: Peiman Zekavat

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

In the heat of a community gym's sauna, a disparate group of Londoners gather nightly to open up about community, connection and faith.

More information here

Supported by: The Uncertain Kingdom


10 mins • Stereo / 5.1 mix

Director: Stroma Cairns

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

A post-punk band made up of adults with learning disabilities discover their resilience, united strength and the power of creativity following the heart-breaking death of one of their band members.

More information at: https://www.delta7film.com/

45 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

​Director: Rosie Baldwin
Sound Editor: Rob Szeliga

For the past four years, filmmaker Ehsan Khoshbakht has been unearthing a long lost cinematic history of film stars from the Middle East. In opening a Pandora’s box of Iranian popular films, Khoshbakht unlocked one of the richest film genres recorded on celluloid. Filmfarsi uncovers the cinematic and social history of Iran under the Shah, suppressed since the 1979 revolution.

The world premiere of Khoshbakht’s essay film brings back a cinema of passion, horror and melodrama that was led by Iran’s most beloved actors. [Text source: BFI news].

This excellent article written by Ehsan for The Guardian is a great introduction to cinema in Pre-revolutionary Iran.

Review at hyperallergic.com here.

83 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Ehsan Khoshbakht

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

Additional Sound Editing: John Cohen

In an encounter between innocence and assumed evil we witness the daily struggles of an imprisoned 21-year-old.

15 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Ross McClean

Supervising Sound Editor: John Cohen

Re-recording mixer: Rob Szeliga

In April 2017 Andrea visited Afghanistan to shoot a documentary on two girls, Zahara and Fatima, respectively studying law and civil engineering at Gawarshad University in Kabul.

The two girls had been able to go to school thanks to the ‘Arghosha Faraway Schools Committee‘, co-founded by Marco and Maria Rosario Niada, which has so far built eleven schools in the province of Bamyan since 2005, including Zarin and Charde, which the girls attended.

The documentary will attempt to explore a more positive side to this war torn country, focusing on Zahara and Fatima, as well as their families and teachers living in the Afghan countryside, showing their struggle against the discrimination of women mainly through education.

More information to follow shortly.

35 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Andrea Niada

Sound Editor / Re-recording mixer: Rob Szeliga

A father who chooses not to live with his children is still a father. But, in the eyes of many, a mother who chooses not to live with her kids is a monster. In this provocative short documentary, three women who made the decision to mother from afar tell their stories, and open up about what they lost—and gained—when they left the homes they had shared with their children. At a time when there’s growing acceptance for alternative family models, why does the idea of non-custodial motherhood still have the power to shock and appall?

17 mins • Stereo mix

Director: Chloe White • https://whalebonefilms.com

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

A portrait of mainstream media and how momentarily they told their story by framing the event, with little awareness, contact, or connection with the community of sufferers. The documentary is a reflection of Guy Debord's 'The Society of the Spectacle', in which he argued “in modern societies, everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation and the spectacle which inverts the real is in fact produced”.

14 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Peiman Zekavat

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

“The starting point is very raw. It’s often just the urge to begin a work, and to use my experience in a very direct way: pouring, spilling, piling up, all those kinds of ways of filling that empty space in front of me. “ - Phyllida Barlow

Filmed in London over four months in the run-up to Phyllida Barlow’s solo show ‘cul-de-sac’ at the Royal Academy, the artist reveals that her subject is hard-won through the process.

RA Exhibition: www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/phyllida-barlow

A Hauser & Wirth production in association with Third Channel and Peacock Pictures.

#TradWives observes a new women's movement emerging in the USA focused on reverting to the values of traditional housewives of the 50s and early 60s, through the story of a Chicago divorcée.

Jennifer is a super-fan of 'Fascinating Womanhood' by Helen Andelin, an international best-seller in 1963 which is the bible of the movement. She travels to Springfield, Missouri to assist the author's daughter, Dixie, who is about to publish a follow-up book for the current generation of women.

Real Stories Original

Content licensed from Little Dot Studios. Any queries, please contact us at: realstories@littledotstudios.com

Produced by Glow Films

19 mins • Stereo mix

Director: Anna Snowball

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

In the harsh Himalayan winter, a group of women are taking charge of their future. They are India’s Women’s Ice Hockey Team. Despite no government funding and a massive lack of infrastructure, these girls are aiming for the world stage: The Challenge Cup of Asia in tropical Kuala Lumpur awaits. 

21 mins • Stereo / 5.1 mix

Director: Cosima Barzini

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

Esteban escaped poverty in the ghetto by running away from home at the age of 13 and joining Colombia’s FARC guerrillas. With the peace process finally under way after long decades of conflict, Esteban’s life changes when he performs at a peace concert and is spotted by a famous Colombian producer. When he is invited to perform in Bogota, a career as a musician begins to look like a possibility rather than a distant dream. However, he must first make his own peace with his past and reconnect with his family in Cali. If his achievement is possible, perhaps it’s conceivable that country can move on, too, from its troubled past.

Playing at Doc n’ Roll Film Festival in London on November 18th. More information here.

49 mins • Stereo / 5.1 mix

Director: Danny Mitchell

Sound Designer: John Cohen, Rob Szeliga

More information to follow shortly.

22 mins • Stereo / 5.1 mix

Director: Georgina Cammalleri

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

A week of sex education in Dutch schools.

9 mins • Stereo mix

Director: Anna Snowball

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

Having lived through pivotal moments in British history, a group of people aged between 80-100 write letters to the younger generation of Britons today. Using their own life experiences, they pass on advice offering insight on life, and how to deal with the current difficulties facing today’s fast moving and divided society.

Commissioned by Sheffield Documentary Festival 2018

3 mins • Stereo mix

Director: Rosie Baldwin

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

Three refugees describe their experiences of gaining their freedom and their lives in The Village, a safe haven in the picturesque town of Darmstadt, Germany. The Village houses the most traumatised refugees arriving in the country, and offers them mental health support to help them overcome their experiences and to take the first steps of their new lives in Germany.

Film online here.

5 mins • Stereo mix

Director: Rose Palmer

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

An internal battle is simmering among US Christians over whether climate change is a call to protect the Earth, the work of God to be welcomed, or does not exist at all.

Evangelicals have traditionally been the bedrock of conservative politics in the US, including on climate change. But a heated debate is taking pace across the country, with some Christians protesting in the name of protecting the Earth, seeing it as a duty to be done in God's name. ne group has even built a chapel in the way of a pipeline and a radical pastor has encouraged his congregation to put themselves in the way of the diggers. Meanwhile, a firm supporter of Donald Trump criss-crosses the country promoting solar power.

But there is still the traditional resistance – a climate scientist who denies the world is warming and a preacher in Florida who sees the fact he was flooded as a good sign of divine presence. With stories from across the country featuring pastors and churchgoers, and showing conflict between generations, races and classes, could it be a surprising section of Christian Americans who could provide hope for the country's attitude to climate change?

Commissioned by The Guardian

23 mins • Stereo mix

Director: Chloe White and Will Davies [Whalebone Films]

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

From Nowhere was commissioned by Red Noses International - a charity committed to bringing joy to people through clowns

From Nowhere takes us through the preparations and final performance of a circus performance in Northern Austria, involving refugees and local children, organised by Red Noses International. A joyful documentary that shows the power of collaboration and laughter.

More information: rednoses.eu

12 mins • Stereo mix

Director: Chloe White and Will Davies [Whalebone Films]

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

"If this hadn't happened in my life, I could have ended up dead."

Here's how a sewing cooperative in Buenos Aires is helping ex-convicts from ending up back in prison.

More information about RISE UP here.

3 mins • Stereo mix

Director: Rose Palmer

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

Construction of dams by energy companies in the Brazilian Amazon would destroy the heart of the world's largest rainforest, and severely affect indigenous people community. If built, the dams would flood an area the size of London, Paris and Amsterdam combined. The flood will also dissolve water with toxic plants which can kill the human. These plants are commonly known as Timbó.
 

9 mins • Stereo mix

Director: Peiman Zekavat

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

Winner of the Best Documentary at the British Independent Film Awards and a double nominee at the Berlin Film Festival, Almost Heaven follows Ying Ling, an ambitious 17 year-old girl far from home, struggling to overcome her sense of displacement, alienation and fears of death as she trains to become a mortician in one of China’s largest funeral homes. An intimate, tender and life-affirming portrait of a young woman on the cusp of adulthood.

More information: www.almost-heaven-film.com

72 mins • 5.1 / Stereo mix

Director: Carol Salter

Sound Designer: Raoul Brand

Sound Effects Editor: Ania Przygoda

Sound Effects Editor: Rob Szeliga

Music: Terrence Dunn

The Eagle's Shadow examines the stories told in Spanish artist Carlos Giménez's groundbreaking 1977 autobiographical comic, Paracuellos. The stories of Spain's Civil War orphans: children like Giménez, taken under the wing of Generalissimo Franco's Social Aid boarding schools. The children of the dictator's utopia, marching for forty years under the eagle flag of his fascist regime. Inspired by Giménez's example activists and cartoonists come together, in the midst of present social upheaval and resurgent far-right shadows, to restore Spain's Historical Memory. The memory of the children of Social Aid and of the forgotten victims of Europe's longest military dictatorship.

46 mins • 5.1 sound mix

Director: Ariel Pintor

Sound Editor: Rob Szeliga

Re-recording Mixer: Rob Szeliga

Enigma of an unknown Consul who risks his life to save many lives during the WWII in France. He creatively made up a new name of 'Djougotis' for Iranian Jews and argued with German officials to exempt them from the Nazi racial policy ...

91 mins • 5.1 mix

Director: Mahdieh zare Zardiny

Supervising Sound Editor: Jens Rosenlund Peterson

Foley Artist and Editor: Rob Szeliga

More information to follow.

Nuclear Hallucinations is a film, which claims to be a documentary, and it is centered around the anti-nuclear struggle against the Kudankulam Atomic Power Project in South India. In a context where cases of sedition and waging of war against the state are filed against anti-nuclear protesters, the film attempts to question the totalitarian nature of pro-nuclear assertions through comic modes. Satirical impersonations, performance and ironic renderings of jingoistic rhetoric work together to form a narrative that explores the tragic absurdity of constructing nuclear power plants on a tsunami affected coast.

54 mins • 5.1 sound mix

Director: Fathima Nizaruddin

Sound Designer: Rob Szeliga

Polish Go Home is an unorthodox migration story about a troubled character trying to find his place in the world. Sleeping rough in London, sometime Polish jobseeker Kuba is running away from the responsibility of family life in Poland - and a difficult past. This film follows his journey back to Poland and to face the problems he left behind, and in search of an elusive place to call home. 

30 mins • 5.1 sound mix

Director: Elena Andreicheva

Sound Editor: Rob Szeliga

Re-recording Mixer: Rob Szeliga

 

A view to the relationship of a falconer and his young assistant Zac who is trying to master the ancient trade of falconry. Birds are not only Zac's passion, they are his life.

8 mins • Stereo sound mix

Director: Sakari Suuronen

Sound Editor: Rob Szeliga

A documentary film about the Home Front in Buckinghamshire during the First World War. Produced with support from the Buckinghamshire Military Museum Trust, and to be distributed to schools and libraries throughout the county.

27 mins • Stereo sound mix for DVD

Director: Joanna Barclay with Deboraha Collett, Presiley Fitzgerald and Mary-Jane Gibson

Sound Design: Rob Szeliga

Honey at the Top is a film about the Sengwer forest people of the Cherangani Hills, Kenya, being evicted from their ancestral land in the name of conservation. Filmmaker Dean Puckett lived in the Embobut forest for two months and filmed an intimate portrait of this community at a crossroads, facing international pressure from organisations like the World Bank, a corrupt Kenya Forest Service who are burning their houses and attempts to turn the forest into a commodity through carbon offsetting schemes. The film centres around father of two Elias as he works with his community to try and hold onto their culture and resist the evictions.

Full film now online.

60 mins • 5.1 sound mix

Director: Dean Pucket

Sound Editor: Rob Szeliga

Re-recording Mixer: Rob Szeliga

Not only a record of the Maccabees recording their fourth album, this is a spirited exploration of the streets and people that populate Elephant and Castle, where the music studio is located.

Two years ago, The Maccabees third album ‘Given To The Wild’ was a Mercury Award nominee. It also went on to win an Ivor Novello. James Caddick and James Cronin’s film charts the band’s creative process as they record their fourth record, ‘Marks To Prove It’, working in self-imposed isolation in an anonymous studio in London’s Elephant and Castle. More than that, the film becomes a compelling, poetic portrait of the area and its local population. Richard and Lyla create gardens in surprises spaces; local musician Natty is having a suit tailored, the Peckham Prides basketball team are striving for success, Crossways is a concrete church where BB heals through prayer, and Arments Pie and Mash shop is an enduring local institution. All of these tales are woven through the band’s experimentation – their false turns, self-doubts and triumphs – as they create what will become an incendiary, life-affirming album.

View the web trailer here
 

Directors James Caddick, James Cronin
Producer James Caddick
UK 2015
83 mins
UK distribution Fiction Records
 

Director: James Caddick / James Cronin

Sound Designer: Dario Swade

Foley Editor: Rob Szeliga

Dailies to Dawn is a poetic journey and tribute which celebrates celluloid film processing as a living form, passionate and organic, made by experience, collective work and ultimate craftsmanship at one of the last thriving film laboratories in the UK.

18 mins • stereo

Director: Kristina Cranfeld

Location Sound: Rob Szeliga

Sound Editor/Designer: Rob Szeliga

WINNER: Best Experimental Short Film • London Short Film Festival 2016

Jack, Luke and Saul are The AutistiX, the UK’s premier autistic rock group. The boys are a tight-knit friendship group, expressing themselves through rock and roll in a way that they struggle to off the stage. Can they impress the crowds as they go on tour for the first time, and build up to their biggest gig so far, Autism’s Got Talent?
 

9.10 mins • stereo • web

Director: Dean Puckett

Sound Editor: Rob Szeliga

Commissioned by The Guardian

Pioneertown. Perched high atop a rocky crag, overlooking the centre of the universe. The lip of the vortex. California. This desert town was once a Hollywood film set, built to tell the world the story of the Old West. But Hollywood has long since departed and what is left is a small community, thriving in a town haunted by old cowboys. A community of characters in the healing land of the High Desert who revive and re-live the dreams of the original Pioneers of the West.

This is a story of real lives in a fantasy world. Of reality and myth in the enduring struggle for the American Dream.

28 mins • 5.1 sound mix

Director: Grace Harper Brighouse

Sound Editor/Designer: Rob Szeliga

Re-recording Mixer: Rob Szeliga

Fact or Fiction: The Life and Times of a Ping Pong Hustler is a chronicle of the final three years of Marty Reisman's life, a former international table tennis champion-turned-money player. Pursuing notoriety through his idiosyncratic lifestyle and motivated by his love of fame and Ping Pong, he inadvertently has to face his biggest fear: mortality. Shot over three years, the film follows Marty - a complex mix of childlike excitement, eccentric narcissism and constant charm - as he negotiates between pride, the denial of old age, past defeats and the decline of his fame and fortune, as well as his devoted wife Yoshiko's health, all while clinging onto the hope that his own life and career are just beginning to blossom. The film's observational style, combined with rare archive footage and interviews with key New York and London society characters such Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson and eminent psychotherapist George Weinberg, work to tell the story of one of America's greatest and most unconventional sports stars at a critical juncture in his life, whilst addressing the wider themes of mortality, immortality and the pursuit of legacy and legend.

60 mins • LTRT / Stereo sound mix

Director: Leo Leigh

Supervising Sound Editor: Rob Szeliga

Re-recording Mixer: Rob Malone

Dialogue Editors: Rob Szeliga, Rob Turner,

Florentin Tudor, Dayo James, Ben Hensor

Chime Audio Post-Production Sound

20:08 mins • LTRT sound mix

Director: Benjamin Huget

Sound Editor/Designer: Rob Szeliga

Re-recording Mixer: Rob Szeliga

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