There’s No Sound in My Head
(20 minutes) USA

Director: Robert Arnold
Producer: Mark Applebaum

Description:
Composer Mark Applebaum’s cryptic, painfully fastidious, wildly elaborate, and unreasonably behemoth pictographic score “The Metaphysics of Notation” consists of seventy linear feet of highly detailed, hand-drawn glyphs, two hanging mobiles, and absolutely no written or verbal instructions. Installed for one year at the Cantor Arts Center Museum on the Stanford University campus it received forty-five weekly performances from interpreters from around the world. There’s No Sound in My Head investigates the project and Applebaum’s development as a composer. Through interviews with composers and musicologists, performance footage, and conversations with Applebaum as he draws in his studio, the film poses questions about the borders between music and visual art.

Biography:
Robert Arnold, founder of Lateral Films, is a filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His recent films include Annabelle, There’s No Sound in My Head, and All Animals, which won the Director’s Choice Award at the San Francisco International Festival of Short Films. Robert’s documentary, The Key of G, won the Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Feature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and aired nationally on PBS. Robert also works as a freelance cinematographer and editor. His editing work includes Leonor’s Journey and Always My Son, for the Family Acceptance Project, both directed by Vivian Kleiman. Robert studied humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, film production at San Francisco State University, and holds a bachelor’s in fine arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Contact Information:
Lateral Films
E-mail: contact@lateralfilms.com
Web site: www.lateralfilms.com