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Ten Seconds of Silence

Meditations on a noisy world

Quiet (A Disruptive Fog (Or a Hogshead Full of Vapor Called Memory))

Michael Langhoff

Jens Stolenberg, the Prime Minister of Norway, received a letter from Mark Booth, Karen Christopher and John Sisson this past fall, to which it proposed a meditation of sorts within the precious sanctuary of our beloved seed vault, containing and preserving over 400,000 seeds from around the world.  As a symbol of the universe (on the head of a pin), this vault holds within itself a rich history, while simultaneously maintaining a dreary presence that implicates the demise of the earth in generations to come.

read more: http://chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/01/quiet-at-epiphany-episcopal-church/

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Sound of Silence Film Festival

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ACM's Sound of Silent Film Festival is the only film festival that features modern silent films screened to live music, composed especially for the films by Chicago composers.

This year's festival features a new score for La Jetee, the classic film that was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys.

Other films include the hilarious Waiting Room by Dutch filmmaker Jos Stelling, Chantal Akerman's masterful Hotel Monterrey and, as part of a collaboration with Berlin-based Moving Silence, ACM is proud to present Egg Love by German filmmaker Birgit Moeller.

Now that the Chopin Theater has a liquor license you can enjoy the show with the tasty beverage of your choice.

for more details:

http://acmusic.org/node/726

Poem--FAMOUS

"The river is famous to the fish./The loud voice is famous to silence,/which knew it would inherit the earth/before anybody said so.//The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds/watching him from the birdhouse.//The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.//The idea you carry close to your bosom/is famous to your bosom."-Naomi Shihab Nye

10 Great Silent Sequences in Sound Movies

The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius’ delightful mash note to the silent cinema, is looking like a sure bet for heavy recognition at this year’s Oscars, racking up three SAG Award nominations, five Independent Spirit Award nominations, and six Golden Globe nominations, in addition to awards for best film of the year from the Boston Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Phoenix Film Critics Society, and the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association. It’s easy to see why film critics in particular have taken to it: it evocatively tells the story of the end of the silent era as a silent movie, complete with black-and-white photography and period music (even using the traditional 1.33:1 aspect ratio).

But it’s not the first sound-era film to ape the silent style; aside from Chaplin’s final silent pictures, done well after sound had taken over, there’s Mel Brooks’ 1976 slapstick tribute Silent Movie, and Charles Lane’s 1989 indie Sidewalk Stories. What’s more, countless sound directors have used silent storytelling techniques to great effect, eschewing dialogue (and sometimes even sound effects) to work through their narrative beats via purely visual means. We’ve assembled ten great “silent” scenes from the sound era; add your own in the comments.

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Keeping Quiet, by Pablo Neruda


Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still
for once on the face of the earth,
...let’s not speak in any language;
let’s stop for a second,
and not move our arms so much.

It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines;
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

Fishermen in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would not look at his hurt hands.

Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victories with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.

What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.

Life is what it is about…

If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with
death.

Now I’ll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.

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