March 2026

Sound of Falling: Custom Optics Capture Fractured Memories

Imagine being able to step into and observe someone’s memories. That’s the premise of the German film Sound of Falling, which explores the remembrances of four girls across four generations and time periods on a farm in northern Germany. Like a stream of consciousness, the memories seem disjointed, but they are, in fact, connected, serving to reveal that traumatic events, no matter how different, have a lasting impact on the psyche. Swiss cinematographer Fabian Gamper, who won the 2025 Camerimage Silver Frog for his work on the film, notes that he and director Mascha Schilinski “didn’t want to draw clear lines [for the viewer] so that the puzzle of trauma would be easily solved. There are experiences from long ago that are written into...more