The Zone of Interest
The commandant of Auschwitz and his wife build an idyllic life in a house beside the camp wall.
The wall is never the subject. We built the film that happens on the other side of it — an atlas of cruelty rendered entirely in sound, scored against a domestic garden.
Kitchen tile, birdsong, distant industrial hum.
Children laughter in foreground. Mechanical undertow beneath.
Voices compressed through masonry. No image.
Footfall on parquet. A shutter. A second shutter.
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.
A year of field recordings at Auschwitz-Birkenau, catalogued at 24-bit, 96kHz. Every transient placed off-screen — gunshots, trains, commands — layered as the unseen film the audience watches with their ears.
- — Field recordings
- — Location ambiences
- — Off-screen world
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