Journaling project 3

 Roland Barthes writes, “To play is to make music, to listen is to hear it as meaningful, and between these, there is a third space—the music’s own erotic.”(p152). This idea helps me rethink the dynamics between sound, image, and audience in my experimental film, particularly the scene where two mute individuals converse in sign language without subtitles. Instead of guiding interpretation with words, I want the film to invite the audience into a sensory experience where understanding arises through gesture and musical atmosphere—where listening becomes tactile.

The private side of the project includes scripting, sound design, editing, and working alone in the studio with music fragments and silent footage. But once shown, it becomes public: performed as a film and interpreted by viewers, each bringing their own listening to it. The absence of subtitles challenges traditional viewing and creates space for what Barthes calls a “tangible intelligibility”, a moment where meaning is felt rather than decoded.

Barthes’ reading of Beethoven’s deafness as a metaphor for music that exceeds abstraction resonates here: my project doesn’t just convey dialogue, it seeks to evoke the erotic third meaning, what escapes both language and literal music. The scene between the mute characters is not silent; it is filled with unheard speech made audible by the score, and with bodies that listen as much as they speak.

Project update:

I have finished filming 7 scenes out of 11 that planned out, but there are certains issue with some scenes ( audio mostly) Also the time conflict between actors make it hard to film some scenes with 3-4 characters in it. 


Link to some of the photos // ideas