Movie

Sound Spring (2025)

• April 5, 2025
• 1h 18m

• Documentary

Overview

Unfolding in a series of eight vignettes, Sound Spring explores the history ofYellow Springs, Ohio over hundreds of years, as narrated by its residents incomical scenes: one interviewee rollerblades and reads the village's water meters, another stands on his head in a breakdancing freeze. The villagers describe American history-their ancestors' settlements after slavery, a friendship with Coretta Scott King, and Ohio's Trail of Tears- among other more personal details of village life. The wording of their recollections is imperfect, unsure-in fact they are all re-stagings of their previous audio interviews. Through performing their own previously recorded media, villagers uncover layers of time and storytelling.

Director

Catalina Jordan Alvarez

Writers

Catalina Jordan Alvarez, Jeanne Kay

Starring

Anne Bohlen, Sumayah Chappelle, Karen McKee