In roughly 1.5 hours, Aura Satz takes us on a surreal journey to sirens worldwide, be it in the ghostly streets of Fukushima, snowy landscapes in the baltic, or a fascinating siren graveyard in the USA. The eerie shots are not accompanied by the actual noise of the sirens depicted, but by alternative siren sounds thought out by various sound artists.
With this sometimes alarming, sometimes soothing audiovisual backdrop, Satz lets people from various backgrounds ask, and attempt to answer, questions like: What does the sound of a siren invoke in different people? What can we learn about a society from the way they use sirens? What kind of siren systems did first nations people invent?; as well as broader questions, like why we seem to ignore the sirens of climate change, and can there be an emergence in an emergency?
If you are like me, and 89 minutes of flashing lights and surreal alarms sound exciting to you, you will enjoy this thought-provoking feature.
