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The impossibility of silence on cinema

last Thursday was held at the Alliance Francaise, a session of beautiful short films mostly in the time of the early twentieth century avant-garde. The subject: the modern city, curated by Philippe-Alain Michaud, Centre Pompidou.
All were silent films to be projected; know if the audience that exceeded the room had previously observed this in the program, but all I got to thinking that this was not the case. The first went off the mild-eyed viewers who swallowed those powerful images with a greedy eye. With the arrival of the second, came the attacks of coughing. Clear cell, also sounded, despite the unprecedented invitation to switch off the appliances. Shortly after he felt the air pressure. The creaking of chairs echoed in a room trying desperately to remain silent, whispering, sneezing and coughing contagious increasingly spread over the audience like a wildfire. The few seconds that mediated between a video and the other unleashed a barrage of comments, crosswords, suppressed coughs exploding as a safety valve in an audience that did not seem (seemed) able to withstand the silence that required no more than 10 minutes each lasting short. If only there was an accompanying live music, this is amenizaría a touch, I say.
A while later, this decompression gave words to this film, on top of arguments, in the very short intervals flight and joined the mass departure of much of the hearing, which was relieved once out, when their lips could reissue sounds an audible level without a "Shhhh!" He burst on the ear.
never went to see a silent film to the cinema, but now the public resistance that I experienced here in front of these short, was such that it resembled me as nearly impossible, touching the limits of tolerance of people accustomed to many simultaneous stimuli, to achieve the necessary quiet to relax and close your mouth a few minutes required to go through an intensive course before crossing zen the front door of the room.
Kurosawa, silent film great farmer, said he tried to imagine how would be the scenes of his movies if they were silent, and then eliminated all superfluous dialogue.
occasionally comes While a bit of minimalism.