FILM

Two Belgrade musicians listen and interpret the pop hit ‘Shout’ by Tears for Tears, without understanding a single word. They try to grasp the text by means of mimesis. “If meaning is not conveyed through this music, then the music presents itself. Sounds uttered by the two men in Shoum seem familiar as words, and this estrangement of words makes language become music. The notion of knowing something – language, is displaced here by the notion of relating to something – sound.” (KZ)