2025 Nashville Film Festival

Transmissions From Beyond

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What are the sounds of Guantánamo Bay Detention Center? In 2015, poet Jordan Scott set out to record the ambient sounds of the prison as a means of bypassing its strict media censorship rules. Today, former detainee, Mansoor Adayfi, recalls how sound shaped his experiences there— both of torture and of hope. On the year of the 20th anniversary of the prison, Scott’s field recordings and Adayfi’s memories come together to create a visceral new landscape of this notoriously secret place.

  • Runtime
    13 minutes
  • Director
    Katie Mathews, Jess Shane
  • Producer
    Mansoor Adayfi, Katie Mathews, Jess Shane
  • Cast
    Mansoor Adayfi, Jordan Scott
  • Cinematographer
    Leila Barghouty
  • Editor
    Kaija Siirala
  • Composer
    Bassel Al-Rahim
  • Sound Design
    Jordan Scott