12pt9<p><a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/Bales2023FilmChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bales2023FilmChallenge</span></a> April 27: <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/Morse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Morse</span></a> code heard on <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/MorseCodeDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MorseCodeDay</span></a></p><p>Jean <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/Cocteau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cocteau</span></a>'s Orphée [Orpheus] (1950) – here the mythological poet and musician is personified by Jean Marais – accompanies a fallen young poet transported to the Underworld by car. The car radio plays fragments of poetry, interrupted by <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/MorseCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MorseCode</span></a>. When back in this world, <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/Orph%C3%A9e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orphée</span></a> obsesses over the lines of radical poetry he heard and returns to the car's radio to retrieve them.</p><p>Morse code and other industrial sounds serve as a soundscape for Cocteau's characters. They swerve in and out of it, sometimes fully aware of them (Orpheus himself is attuned to the <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> to be found in emergency radio broadcasts), sometimes passing through like a mirage. </p><p><a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/JeanCocteau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JeanCocteau</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/MusiqueConcr%C3%A8te" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MusiqueConcrète</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/GeorgesAuric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgesAuric</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/SoundDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoundDesign</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/soundscapes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soundscapes</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/JeanMarais" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JeanMarais</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mythology</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/SamuelMorse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SamuelMorse</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/FilMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FilMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/CineMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CineMastodon</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://c.im/@bales1181" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bales1181</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/film" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>film</span></a></span> <a href="https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bale</span><span class="invisible">s2023filmchallenge/</span></a></p>