Adi Zaffran

The project explores how foley, the reproduction of sounds by physical means that are then added to film and video in post-production, can be used as a therapeutic tool to trigger the emotional imagery of a traumatic event by revisiting and stimulating an inner moment.

Within each session, using simple objects as props and the guidance and expertise of the Foley artist to articulate and narrate, the participants produce specific sounds that relate to their personal traumatic event, which then become the subject of a memory. The Foley session enables participants to control the stimuli and when the sound occurs, unlike in real life when people might suddenly hear it when they least expect it. This provides a platform of retelling a story and reprocessing it safely, a means of collecting a testimony and analysing it during the process of rebuilding a soundscape.