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Winter 2018

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36 W I N T E R 2 0 1 8 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y The Distant Sound of Barking Dogs A Case Study: t begins with a home video, shot looking out the front windshield of a car driving down a city street, everything looking normal. A couple of cars ahead, a bomb explodes and, as the driver quickly reverses from the scene, pieces of asphalt, glass, and metal come raining down. This is how the documentary The Distant Barking of Dogs opens. It is the story of a family, a grandmother and her 8-year-old grandson Oleg, living in the little village of Hnutove in the Ukraine. They are caught in the middle of a war going on between the government and the pro-Russian separatists. Their lives are beautifully chronicled by the filmmaker Simon Lereng Wilmont, and recently won an award at IDFA, International Film Festival Amsterdam, which is the largest documentary film festival in the world. I had the pleasure of being a part of this film while visiting my good friend and renowned Foley artist, Heikki Kossi, in Finland. Heikki and Peter Albrechtsen did the final mix in Copenhagen, Denmark, and I got the chance to interview them both. I A Documentary Mix

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