Filmmaker Aura Satz looks beyond the siren as a mechanism for alarm, considering its origins in Greek mythology. Here, the siren does more than notify; it impels us to hear the signals of humanitarian crisis and climate collapse as calls to action. Satz films in locations around the globe, at sites of past or potential disasters, and locations of siren and alarm infrastructure—such as the Fukushima nuclear site in Japan and a siren graveyard in Illinois. Following her 2022 cinema residency, Satz returns to the Walker Cinema to present this award-winning feature-length film. Made in collaboration with more than 20 experimental musicians, including Sarah Davachi, Moor Mother, Raven Chacon, Elaine Mitchener, and FUJITA, Preemptive Listening reimagines what form a siren may take. 2024, UK/Finland, DCP, 89 min.
A conversation between Aura Satz and writer Pooja Rangan follows the screening.
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Pooja Rangan is a professor of English in film and media studies at Amherst College, specializing in the politics of voice and listening in documentary. Her award-winning book Immediations (Duke University Press, 2017) examines the dilemmas of participatory media that aim to “give voice” to marginalized subjects. She is the co-editor of Thinking with an Accent (UC Press, 2023) and has written extensively on topics like forensic listening, disability aesthetics, and true crime abolition. Her forthcoming book, The Documentary Audit (Columbia University Press 2025), explores how accented, disabled, and abolitionist practitioners challenge traditional documentary frameworks of justice and accountability. Rangan also co-edits the Investigating Visible Evidence book series at Columbia Press and serves on the editorial board of the documentary journal World Records.
Aura Satz is a London-based artist whose work encompasses film, sound, performance, and sculpture. She has performed, exhibited, and screened her work nationally and internationally at Tate Modern; BFI Southbank; New York Film Festival; Hayward Gallery; Whitechapel Gallery; Sydney Biennale; Tokyo’s NTT InterCommunication Center; High Line Art; Rotterdam Film Festival; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Sharjah Art Foundation; Kadist San Francisco; Onassis Stegi; and others. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Wellcome Collection, London; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Dallas Contemporary; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York; and ARTIUM, Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain. Satz has collaborated with filmmaker Lis Rhodes and a wide range of composers, vocalists, and musicians.
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