Surface Passing

By: Galina Juritz, Roger Young and Kurt Human

An interrogation of the City streets and the people who pass through them, Surface Passing is a collaborative project by composer Galina Juritz, sound artist Kurt Human and filmmaker Roger Young.

Music holds undisputed power in its intersection with film: it can be used to manipulate feeling, anticipate unease, hurry narrative, lend gravitas, distort and re-contextualise, or amplify the existing. In the tradition of the silent film with live orchestra, Surface Passing combines film, sound design and a small ensemble of musicians playing live 'score' to the simultaneous filming of the action that unfolds around them.

Filmed during the Infecting The City Festival, the project will evolve from image to score to sound design with no narrative constraints, right up to and including the moment it screens.