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2025 · Yorgos Lanthimos · 1h 58m

Bugonia

Credit
Sound Designer
Logline

Two conspiracy-soaked men abduct the CEO of a major corporation, convinced she is an alien in human form.

The Unseen Narrative

The cellar is not a location — it is a pressure chamber. We tuned the acoustics so that every confession, every silence, resonates as if the walls themselves were a held breath waiting to be exhaled.

Selected Frames
#001
The Basement

Fluorescent hum. Drip of a condensate line. Duct resonance.

#002
Restraint

Fabric on skin. Chain on concrete. Breath shortened by tape.

#003
The Interrogation

Voices flattened by low ceiling. Sub-audible refrigerator.

#004
The Sky

An upward pressure the characters cannot hear. The audience can.

Stems
Acoustic Breakdown

The film is built from these components. Each stem below is a narrative thread — the work is in how they are woven, and where they are withheld.

Every space is tuned to the belief system of whoever occupies it. The captors' basement swells with conspiracy frequencies — narrow-band hums, clandestine intermodulation — while the CEO's world is engineered silence broken by hyper-articulate transients.

Elements
  • Narrow-band hum
  • Belief-coded tone
  • Asymmetric rooms

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