Jennifer Walden - A Sound Effect
Director Mary Mary Bronstein’s film If I Had Legs I’d Kick You – premiering at Sundance_2025 and set to be distributed by A24 – is a trip into the exhausting and overwhelming life of a mother named Linda, who is bombarded by tribulations. Shot in close-up, the audience is glued to Linda, experiencing her stress of unrelenting conflicts and her escape into a surreal reality. Here, sound supervisor/sound designer Filipe Messeder and re-recording mixer Ruy Garcia talk about their close collaboration with dir. Bronstein and picture editor Lucian Johnston, choosing exact sounds to play in each moment to clearly communicate off-screen events, designing surreal soundscapes that take the place of score, using the full surround field and crafting a dynamic mix to engage and immerse the audience, and more!