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Director's Statement
The world of BERBERIAN is steeped in analogue iconography. The film harks back to a time before digital plug-ins. It took a whole room of machinery to do what a single laptop can do now. But what we sometimes forget is how visually powerful and other-worldly these reel-to-reels, oscillators, patch bays and even dubbing cue sheets looked. In this film, sound often comes with its visual counterpart - we see the process of tape loops being assembled, musicians working on gongs, foley artists destroying vegetables. What is just a process in the making of any other film becomes the centrepiece in BERBERIAN as we find ourselves caught in the sprockets of a soundtrack. Despite the heightened nature of many sounds, there is a tangible sonic reality to everything since the soundtrack is diegetic.