Sound-only film about foreigners aims to open eyes to their presence

With "Our Sounds," a sound-only documentary film about a group of foreign students that confronts audiences with a black screen, Japanese director Hiroshi Habu wants to show people how to see in a new way.The 55-minute film is structured around a multilingual group of foreigners studying Japanese in the city of Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture as they collaborate on writing a song about their experiences of living in Japan.Shot in segments over around 15 days in 2021, it is a patchwork of unscripted interactions among the students, whom Habu was teaching Japanese. Some of the dialogue is in th…READ FULL ARTICLE