FILMSOUND

Joel has worked as sound designer, composer, and/or recordist on a number of film and video projects and has written and lectured on sonic aesthetics in avant-garde film. Joel's filmsound work utilises electroacoustic composition, free improvisation, field recordings, and music concrete; blurring the traditional distinctions between foley, atomsphere, score and diegetic and non-diegetic uses of sound.
 
 

FOOTNOTE
Directed by Pia Borg
(16mm, 7mins, 2004)

Sound Designer: Joel Stern
Music Personnel: Anthony Pateras - Piano (in collaboration with Joel Stern)




Selected Screenings:
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2004
Sydney Film festival 2004
Melbourne Animation Festival 2004
Sao Paulo International Film Festival 2004
Anifest- Czech Republic 2004
Chicago Film Festival 2004
New York Film Festival 2004
Brisbane International Film Festival 2004
Hiroshima Animation Festival 2004
Krok Festival Russia 2004
Telluride Film Festival
Oberhausen Film Festival
London Animation Festival

  

Scratches, Sketch, Salt’ and
‘The Bloodless Legs / The Sleepless Nights’
Directed by Sally Golding and Pia Borg
(16mm, 18mins, 2003)

18-minute soundtrack constructed from location recordings and electronic composition by Joel Stern, with improvised violin by Alison Blunt.

‘A bravura display of surrealism in two parts’ – Andrew Hamilton – The Wire Magazine (UK) Sep03

 Performed live at Liquid Architecture 4, ACMI, Fed Sq. Melbourne July 2003.

Selected Screenings:
Electrofringe Newcastle 2003
Melbourne Fringe Festival 2003
Straight Out of Brisbane 2004
Codec Cinema Melbourne 2003
Auckland New Zealand