The 2025 Sound of Silent Film Festival will premiere in Chicago on April 2nd at the Music Box Theatre.
Tomato by Todd Sullivan
A chance encounter in an elevator changes a businessman’s life forever
Music by Dan Cooper
Of Wood by Owen Klatte
“Of Wood” is a unique experimental stop motion film created by progressively carving images in a large round of wood, enhanced with wooden objects coming out of the wood. It examines the role of wood in daily life through the ages and comments on the impact of consumerism on our lives.
Music by Will Rowe
The Mime and the Black Butterfly by Jose Luis Saturno
Marcelo finds himself at the doors of the underworld, where he will attempt to teach death how to laugh in exchange for a second chance at life.
Music by Seth Boustead
In Una Goccia by Valeria Weerasinghe
Split between two cultures, a young girl falls into an imaginary jungle to escape her daily life. Guided by a drop, she finds herself in front of her roots and realises her heritage will forever be an important part of her identity.
Music by Amy Wurtz
Out of the Peat by Tabitha Carless-Frost and Theo Rollason
An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. But, in digging into the peat — and into the past — they unearth much more than mere relics.
Music by Carl LaMark
A by Katherine Allen
An unexpected attack during a lobster dinner leaves Audrey and Alistair’s relationship forever changed.
Music by David Keller
War Worms by Vippin PV
Two woodcutters with golden eyes find a glowing ball inside a tree, setting off a perilous journey filled with greed, betrayal, and violence. This exposes the human darkness, as well as their connection to the nature.
Music by Alon Nechushtan
Still Life by Fran Lopez
An abandoned house comes to life and turns into a landscape inspired by dreams and nightmares.
Music by Lila Mora
Ephemera by Aram Riazi
A ghost steals a young girl’s radio leading her into realizing that the ghost is her former lover.
Music by Seth Bousteadd
Hand Job by Davis Cameron Chu and Meezahn Senbetta
After an attempted suicide, a sentient hand must save its body from certain death.
Music by Gene Pritsker
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The Sound of Silent Film Festival is a production of Access Contemporary Music, a non-profit with the mission of providing equitable access to the transformative power of music-making.
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