Mondegreen
2026 · 10m · USA
Directed by Linda Mai Green
Tones: contemplative, surreal, tense
A sound artist at a Northern California residency grows paranoid after picking up an eerie noise in her recordings and clocking suspicious strangers on the property. The film slides from thriller into sci-fi as her grip loosens.
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An artist who listens too closely for a living, undone by what she heard. That's a premise with teeth.
Green turns field recordings into the narrative device — the artist's own collected sound becomes the haunting. Berberian Sound Studio's paranoia plus rural-residency dread; the sonic logic is doing the genre work.
Field recordings as the narrative device, weaponized against the artist who collected them — that's a clean sound-design conceit, and the residency-in-the-woods paranoia setup gives it room to breathe. The conspiracy-theorists-on-the-property complication should sharpen the dread.
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Green frames the story as a mix of thriller and sci-fi, a sharp account of an artist in a frazzled state.