Suara dan Spiritualitas dalam Film

Abstract

The birth of film at the end of 19th century was a claim towards man’s obsession about movement. The invention of camera as a recording device can be seen as an answer to the problem that disturbs Western civilization since the age of ancient Greece. Camera is able to present movement visually, but there is still one thing that is missing from the invention of the medium. If cinema were only to depend on picture, and negates sound, then the long journey of film invention seems to be for nothing. Why is sound so crucial in film? Wasn’t the purpose of film was only to capture movement visually? This article attempts to see other possibilities from dound in film based on phenomenological approach. The problem of human existence and their relation with the world gives birth to philosophical questions that places film as an alternative to answer this problem. The integration of sound and pictures makes it possible for an understanding towards the world. In the end, man’s longing to understand himself and his spiritual dimension is possible because of film’s potential as a complete audio-visual medium.