Close-Up: Sound is a new FINA series devoted to the invisible dimension of cinema. Penetrating the image, sound gives it tone and expression. At the same time it reaches beyond the frame, calls and draws us into the story in ways we often do not notice.
Despite its fundamental role, film sound was long sidelined. Cinema is primarily understood as the art of image, as the "visibility of human interaction with matter."
Prepared by the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute, the series is dedicated to cinema as a multisensory experience. It is an invitation to listen to cinema just as attentively.
Close-Up: Sound focuses on the practices, techniques and technologies of film sound — from recording, through processing, to playback. Screenings will be enriched by conversations with the creators behind the soundtracks of the presented titles. An integral part of the series are lectures outlining the history and development of phonography and its influence on the evolution of film language. The program is completed by films that themselves tell stories about sound — directing attention beyond the screen and revealing the mechanisms that shape our cinematic experience.
Close-Up: Sound continues the programming line of the “Ziemia Obiecana” hall, taking advantage of the hall’s exceptional acoustics, while also opening the broader Close-Up program — devoted to the technical dimensions of film art.
The series runs from October to June and includes nine screenings — one each month.
📍 FINA, ul. Wałbrzyska 3/5, Warszawa (metro Służew)
The series consists of film screenings and lectures where creators and specialists discuss aspects of film sound. All screenings take place at FINA in Warsaw.
