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Directed by: Aura Satz
Runtime: 1h 29min
Certificate: PG
Topics:
Arts & Culture
Last Screened:
Sun 27th Apr 2025
In an age of intersecting political, man-made and ecological disasters, Preemptive Listening is an ode to the sirens that are and those that could be.
Siren compositions from over 20 collaborators form a resonant voice to ask: does an alarm have to be alarming?
Artist Aura Satz re-imagines sirens in order to forge a new understanding of present and long-term emergency. The siren serves as a worldwide cipher of potential trauma, an emblem warning of climate catastrophe, a mouthpiece for sonic governance and crisis management.
Followed by a Q&A with director Aura Satz, hosted by filmmaker, scholar and writer Alisa Lebow.