De Profundis.

Lawrence Brose for a soundtrack for the film “De Profundis.” The soundtrack, much like the film itself, will be a multi-layered composition of spoken texts and other altered audio samples to create a multiphonic wall of sounds. The lyrics are excerpted passages from Oscar Wilde’s letter from prison “De Profundis” as well as his other writings. Wilde’s passages will be combined with a sound environment of colliding voices from several prerecorded sources that question the framing of a singular voice in the 90’s gay movement and thereby shattering an ideological framework of normalization. “De Profundis” is expected to be shown at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, the Munich Museum of Film and other international venues. The film will also be distributed by Frameline Distribution, Canyon Cinema, London Filmmakers Co-Op, Light Cone Distribution in France, and the NY Filmmakers Co-Op.Zoe Beloff for “Beyond”, an interactive multimedia project. The piece is a philosophical inquiry exploring the paradoxes of technology and imagination posed since the birth of mechanical reproduction: the phonograph severing the voice from the body, photography capturing the soul and cinema resurrecting the dead. Beloff’s piece will be available on CD-ROM and also on the Web.