Sound Spring

Sound Spring (2025) is a documentary film directed by Catalina Jordan Alvarez.

Unfolding in a series of eight vignettes, Sound Spring explores the history ofYellow Springs, Ohio over hundreds of years, as narrated by its residents incomical scenes: one interviewee rollerblades and reads the village's water meters, another stands on his head in a breakdancing freeze. The villagers describe American history-their ancestors' settlements after slavery, a friendship with Coretta Scott King, and Ohio's Trail of Tears- among other more personal details of village life. The wording of their recollections is imperfect, unsure-in fact they are all re-stagings of their previous audio interviews. Through performing their own previously recorded media, villagers uncover layers of time and storytelling.

Cast

Anne Bohlen

Self

Sumayah Chappelle

Jalyn Roe

Karen McKee

Self

Rose Pelzl

Self

Charles Arthur Williams

Self

Shane Creepingbear

Self

Donna Denman

Self

Talon Silverhorn

Self

Elias Kelley

Paul Graham

Rukiya Robertson

Jalyn Roe

Jalyn Roe

Self (voice)