THE SOUND CHASER

THE SPIRIT'S ROAD. The film takes us from the city’s hubbub to the silence of the mountains. In Nepal, music always interferes with man’s efforts to reach a superior dimension. Sounds allow him to enter a weightless world. Bells, chants and prayers rule the life of a community that spends most of its time celebrating complex domestic rituals meant to make them keep up with eternity’s pace. We follow Christian Holl as he records, among other sounds, footsteps in monasteries built high on mountain cliffs and echoes of waterfalls