Production Sound Mixer / Sound Designer / Supervising Sound Editor
Locarno 76 Official Selection (Concorso Cineasti del presente)
"With a soundtrack that rises and falls in an ambient bolero of distorted machine noise...it’s the alchemical little movie that could, and one of the year’s best."
Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice
“The audio design by Andrew Siedenburg and Nikolay Antonov is thus an inescapably crucial part of the film’s impact. “
Screen Daily, Family Portrait: Locarno Review
“Indeed, there’s a surreal side to Family Portrait, although the film also feels hyperreal in places, with sound designers Nikolay Antonov and Andrew Siedenburg turning up the mix at key moments. When leaves rustle, it’s like a tidal wave suddenly washing over the land. At other times the sound almost drops out completely, plunging the viewer into a troubling void.”
Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
Site of Passage (dir. Lucy Kerr) — experimental fiction, 16mm, color, sound, 7 min, 2022
Sound Designer / Colorist
FIDMarseille 2022, Reykjavic International Film Festival 2022
The work envelopes viewers in a three dimensional sensorial experience of dynamic relationships between humans and different species. Inspired by feminist posthumanism author Rosi Braidotti and Science Fiction writer Octavia E. Butler, the augmented audio walk unfolds the perspective of “the other”–one that is a composite organism consisting of multiple entities. By refusing the often-troubling anthropocentric perspective and acknowledging the urgency of environmental degradations, the augmented audio guide is led by a symbiotic plant-like creature as they trace a speculative fiction. The fiction illustrates the state of Earth after devastating floods and the growth of new symbiotic systems and multispecies modes of care in this post-apocalyptic world.
This project was originally presented within the post-industrial landscape of Zollverein as part of the NEW NOW Conference, a space originally constructed as an anchor point for the European Route of Industrial Culture. Triangle Walks is adaptable to any kind of space in which listeners/viewers may walk.
Produced by: Dovile Aleksaite, Lucy Kerr, and Alisi Telengut
Sound Design: Andrew Siedenburg