How Daniel Blumberg turned water, wind and silence into a film score

The Italian director Gianfranco Rosi has long established an aesthetic for his patient, poetic documentary features: no talking heads, no music, no voiceover, just the simplicity of the images speaking for themselves. On Sacro GRA, it’s an Italian motorway, and the communities surrounding it; on Fire at Sea, it’s migrants trying to reach the island of Lampedusa. Within the silences – or, rather, the sound of wind, water,hellip;

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