The Sounds of Home Away
It’s often the prevalent but peripheral stimuli which allow us to be transported to a different place or time; that old song from high school, the smell of your grandmother’s cooking, etc.. Sound editor and sound designer Peiqi (aka Peggy) Duan has made a career of this in using her heightened sense and skills for creating auditory settings in film. For Home Away , she has wrapped the visual story in a sonic world which delivers us to the bustling cities of China to witness a father/son relationship at a tragic moment. Director Xiang Xu, under contract with China’s biggest entertainment company Tencent, enlisted Duan as a fan of her work on the films Moscow Nights and Father’s Studio . Starring award-winning Taiwanese actor Jack Kao as the father, this China/Taiwan release received massive critical acclaim for its talent in front of and behind the camera. In Home Away , Xiang Xu has created a film about one man but which also portrays the feelings of so many in today’s world....