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52 F A L L 2 0 1 6 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y M any of us have worked on projects that were destined for inclusion in a film festival. Some of these fes- tivals have been the launching point for a successful career as a filmmaker or film craftsperson. I would venture to guess that not so many of us have submitted to a film festival centered on sound design. Cinesonika is such a festival. From the Cinesonika website: "Cinesonika is the premiere international exhibition for works which make full artistic use of sound's contribution to the moving image, showcasing fascinating soundtracks, idiosyncratic sound design, eclectic scoring, and innovative approaches to the sound-image relationship." The Cinesonika Film Festival is the creation of Michael Filimowicz, an educator in the media disciplines at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. This festival has always been an international event, having previously been held in b y P e t e r D a m s k i C A S CAS MEMBER EVENT: Vancouver, BC, Canada, and Northern Ireland. Now in its fifth year, the festival was hosted by Ball State University's Department of Telecommunications in Muncie, IN, dur- ing the weekend of September 30-October 1, 2016. CAS Associate member Vanessa Theme Ament PhD was the mas- ter and commander who brought the festival to Ball State this year with the support of her Chair, Tim Pollard, and Dean, Roger Lavery. The festival has always brought research about sound design and films that pushed the sound design boundaries together in an academic environment to explore the collaboration of sight and sound. Evidence of this was this year's keynote speaker, Rick Altman PhD, who is an author and editor of many scholarly publications concerning the use of sound in film, including Sound Theory/Sound Practice, which has sold more than 30,000 copies to date and is just being published in Chinese. In addition to the panels given by participants and the viewing of films, the Golden Earwax Award was presented to the film considered to have the best use of sound. This year's award went to the Polish film Object, by filmmakers Kasia Szczerba and Paulina Skibinska. In addition, Ball State undergrad Joshua Kattner gave a demonstration of the music production studios in cooperation with Dr. Robert Willey of the school's Music Department. Almost 40 films from filmmakers around the world were submitted to the festival this year. They included genres inclusive of narrative and documen- tary films, animation and visual music, lyric films, interactive, installation, From left: Rick Altman giving his keynote address; Vanessa Ament introducing the keynote address. Photos by Sadie Lebo CAS Associate member Stan Sollars presents a program on immersion. Photo: Dan Jacobsen

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