"It brought me back to this feeling I had from childhood. I remember I would ask myself who was playing here before, who was sitting exactly where I'm sitting now, all the thoughts they had on this spot and how they're in me now."
"We'd been discussing for a long time subtle questions like 'What is written into our bodies through time?', or 'What determines us long before we were even born?' But we weren't sure how to turn it into a film, because all the things that I was interested in were almost invisible in nature."
"Sound of Falling, a fictional portrait of the women who'd lived at the farm - their fears, their desires, their innermost secrets - over the course of a century. Eerie and impressionistic, the film flits with ghostly intuition between the stories of four young women across different historical periods."
Mascha Schilinski visited a rural German farm during Covid and experienced déjà vu that sparked creative collaboration with co-writer Louise Peter. Over time at the farmstead, they developed ideas about inherited experiences and what shapes human identity before birth. Discovering an old photograph of three women from when the farm was operational, they found their artistic vessel. Sound of Falling emerged as a fictional portrait spanning a century, following four young women—Alma, Erika, Angelika, and another—through different historical periods from the 1910s through the GDR era. The film explores their fears, desires, and secrets through an eerie, impressionistic style that captures invisible psychological and temporal dimensions.
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