Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Colours of Sound
Directed by Cécile Embleton
Duration 22’ | English
Officially selected for #WOMEX24 Film Programme:
Thursday - Saturday, 11:00-17:00
Film Library
Production Country, Year UK, 2024 | Produced by Cécile Embleton & Seemab Gull | Executive Producer Alex Usborne | Associate Producers Hesta & David Spiro | Director of Photography Cécile Embleton | Sound Andrei Bako | Editor Romain Beck
Exploring movement, touch, imagination and love, the final film in the Colours of Sound triptych reveals the sensorial world of a blind musician and celebrates the resonating power of music. We meet British-Nigerian soprano, Victoria Oruwari, who woke up in blackness after an eye operation aged six and began experiencing synaesthesia. Finding the colours she saw became stronger with music, she embarked on the beginnings of her musical career.
Cécile Embleton is a documentary director based in the UK. Her first feature-length documentary, Mother Vera, is supported by Sundance, won first prize at Locarno First Look 2023 and the First Look Prize at the HotDocs Forum 2021. The film will screen in competition at the London Film Festival 2024.
More info about the WOMEX 24 Film Programme here: womex.com
See you in Manchester! #worldwidemusic #musicfilm
Colours of Sound
Directed by Cécile Embleton
Duration 22’ | English
Officially selected for #WOMEX24 Film Programme:
Thursday - Saturday, 11:00-17:00
Film Library
Production Country, Year UK, 2024 | Produced by Cécile Embleton & Seemab Gull | Executive Producer Alex Usborne | Associate Producers Hesta & David Spiro | Director of Photography Cécile Embleton | Sound Andrei Bako | Editor Romain Beck
Exploring movement, touch, imagination and love, the final film in the Colours of Sound triptych reveals the sensorial world of a blind musician and celebrates the resonating power of music. We meet British-Nigerian soprano, Victoria Oruwari, who woke up in blackness after an eye operation aged six and began experiencing synaesthesia. Finding the colours she saw became stronger with music, she embarked on the beginnings of her musical career.
Cécile Embleton is a documentary director based in the UK. Her first feature-length documentary, Mother Vera, is supported by Sundance, won first prize at Locarno First Look 2023 and the First Look Prize at the HotDocs Forum 2021. The film will screen in competition at the London Film Festival 2024.
More info about the WOMEX 24 Film Programme here: womex.com
See you in Manchester! #worldwidemusic #musicfilm
