Sound Spring

Description

Unfolding in a series of eight vignettes, Sound Spring explores the history of Yellow Springs, Ohio over hundreds of years, as narrated by its residents in comical scenes: one interviewee rollerblades and reads the village’s water meters, another stands on his head in a breakdancing freeze. The villagers describe American history-their ancestors’ settlements after slavery, a friendship with Coretta Scott King, and Ohio’s Trail of Tears- among other more personal details of village life. Their wording of their recollections is imperfect, unsure-in fact they are all re-stagings of their previous audio interviews. Through interacting with their own previously recorded media, villagers uncover layers of time and storytelling.