When artist Erin Johnson and film editor Charlotte Prager moved into a seaside house in 2021, they knew only a handful of facts about the two women who designed and built it in 1971. The two women - art collector Mary-Leigh Smart and artist Beverly Hallam - were exacting about their specifications for the house, and they lived there together for over forty years. In "To be Sound is to be Solid," the filmmakers venture to decipher the house's opaque queer history by studying its complicated and circuitous floor plan. "To be Sound is to be Solid" is a film of layered intimacies and vicarious encounters. By investigating indefinability, erasure, and transparency in queer archives and scientific research, the film builds connections between lesbian, architectural, and environmental histories.
Unfortunately the movie To Be Sound is to Be Solid is not yet available on Disney Plus.
Writing | Lizzi Sandell | Script Editor |
Camera | Charlotte Prager | Director of Photography |
Sound | Matt Nelson | Music |
Editing | Ashley Ayarza | Color Grading |
Production | Erin Johnson | Producer |
Sound | Jeremy Dalmas | Music |
Writing | Erin Johnson | Writer |
Directing | Erin Johnson | Director |
Editing | Charlotte Prager | Editor |
Writing | Charlotte Prager | Writer |
Visual Effects | Lauryn Siegel | Animation |
Sound | Andres Velasquez | Sound Designer |
Sound | Andres Velasquez | Sound Mixer |
Art | Lauryn Siegel | Art Designer |