Epizoda?, a film written and directed by Graeme Cole, with sound design and sound mix by Adjunct Assistant Professor, Michael Cacioppo Belantara, is now available on Tao Films.
Epizoda? follows a seasoned detective and a keen recruit as they cruise through Sarajevo unraveling a crime... but the investigation turns pear-shaped when genre tropes and an existential crisis get in the way. In this orphan episode of a lost detective series, filmmaker Graeme Cole turns his absurdist eye on the whodunit and deconstructs the genre into a maelstrom of giggles, nostalgia and bewilderment. Cole said in an interview, “The movie was inspired by a handful of images of existential agony. My own and some I observed in others. And a few pieces of music.”
Cacioppo Belantara is an audiovisual artist, sound designer and technical specialist with a wide range of professional experience in the sonic and visual arts. His expertise in audio and video post-production is notable through his work with the European Broadcasting Union during 6 Olympic Games and 2 World Alpine Ski Championships. His sound design has featured in Universal Ear, the serial sci-fi adventure from L’Institute Zoom and in One Day Film’s award-winning release The Raven on the Jetty. An Avid, Apple and Davinci Resolve certified instructor, he is currently the Post Production Supervisor and Assistant Director of Instructional and Information Technology for Columbia University School of the Arts and Adjunct Professor of Post Production for the Columbia University Graduate Film Program. He is a founding member of the sonic art collective Kinokophone and serves as co-owner and Post Sound Supervisor for Alchemist Post Solutions.
