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The teacher of the Degree in Audiovisual Media Daniel Torres and coordinator of the SSIT research group has published in the academic journal Quarterly Review of Film and Video Article "First Man": the meaning and use of three very human silences in an inner spatial struggle. In this work, the professor specializing in the aesthetics and use of sound in the audiovisual has analyzed the use of sound editing, music and above all silence in conveying the message of this recent film about the arrival of Neil Armstrong on the moon.

According to Torras, the symptomatic background of this film, more than the challenge and technological challenge, is a debate of humanity itself with the limits of its essence, a debate that is shown in Chazelle's film through the 'exploration beyond known external and internal borders - such as death, for example - and the dissolution or oblivion of all intimate and personal traits in an unstoppable collective political-media magma. This feeling or reflection that this film wants to convey can be summed up in a state of shock or consternation of the human being in the face of the unknown. 

The TecnoCampus professor explains with anthropological, philosophical and psychological arguments that these limits are linked and can be equated with the idea of ​​silence that we keep in our collective imagination and that, therefore, the use of silence as a narrative resource it has been a logical, right choice and consequently well accepted by the general public. In short, Torras explains through our cultural conception of silence why the aesthetic chosen by Chazelle in this work works.

Torras develops a line of research on audiovisual silence in the research group Sound, Silence, Image and Technology (SSIT) with numerous publications already on this topic.

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