"The world speaks, I can only listen": Representations of Indigenous Collective Trauma through Film Sound Design
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research project investigates the role of film sound design in the representation of collective trauma in films about experiences and issues faced by Indigenous peoples. In filmmaking, sound is not only fundamental in providing an aura of realism and in evoking affective forces. It can also provide spectators with imagined sound worlds that represent diverse experiences through aural aesthetic elements that in turn create shades of meaning. A transcultural approach in this study integrates the corpus, placing film representations from different countries in conversation through the analysis of their aural compositions. The project analyzes three contemporary films released between 2013 and 2015: Charlie’s Country by director Rolf De Heer (Australia 2013), Rhymes for Young Ghouls by Jeff Barnaby (Canada 2013) and El Abrazo de la Serpiente by Ciro Guerra (Colombia 2015). The findings of this project establish the connection between aural elements, sound mixing, and factors in the representation of collective trauma, such as issues of space, memory, emotion, and expressions of physical pain. By addressing sound not as an isolated subject, but rather as embedded in a context that produces political representations of trauma, this project contributes to the growing understanding of the evocative potential of film sound.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".