Sound Spring
78 min, USA, 2025
Official Selection 2025 Cleveland International Film Festival
Official Selection 2024 Unorthodocs (extended cut)

The Yellow Spring, the Yellow Spring
The lore is that if you, the lore is, lore is, lore is lore is lore is lore is the lore is that if you
drink the, drink the, drink the water
drink drink drink drink the water
you'll be somehow
trapped, trapped trapped or bound
to Yellow Springs indefinitely
- Shane Creepingbear

Stories by
Charles Arthur Williams, Jalyn Roe, Donna Denman, Shane Creepingbear,
Anne Bohlen, Rose Pelzl, Talon Silverhorn, Paul Graham & Karen McKee
Performances by Rukiya Robertson, Sumayah Chappelle & Elias Kelley

Directed, produced and written by Catalina Alvarez
Executive Producer, Location Sound Matt Morgan
Co-Producer, Director of Photography Elena Dahl
Composer Anthony Vine
Editor Emily Packer
Co-writer and Co-Executive Producer Jeanne Kay
Location Sound, Co-Producer Shawndra Jones
Assistant Camera/Camera Operator Omar Cervantes

Sound Designer & Re-Recording Mixer Mike Kennedy
On-site director of Talon Silverhorn scenes Sumayah Chappelle
Production Assistant/Assistant Camera Zoë Ritzhaupt
Production Assistant Alyssa Navarrette
​Assistant Editor Ben Still & Tyler Clappsaddle

Made possible by
Grants from the Yellow Springs Community Foundation, Rooftop Films, Antioch College, Fordham University and the Johnstone Fund for New Music
In-kind donations from WYSO and Matthew Morgan
Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Wexner Center for the Arts​ Film/Video Studio Program

Soundtrack available on Kuyin (review), will be performed live at NYC's Microscope Gallery March 3 2025 (postponed).

Press kit available here

Screenings of individual chapters (shorts):

"OVC 2020: Sound Spring Seq. #6: The School and the Home,"
ICA Philadelphia, August 10, 2020

“In Conversation: Catalina Jordan Alvarez and Lino Kino,”
ICA Philadelphia, August 12, 2020

Dessane Lopez Casell, “Tired of Netflix? Stream Experimental Films and Video Art,”
Hyperallergic, March 24,2020



Further Reading on the History of Yellow Springs, Ohio:

The 365 Project
A volunteer group of local professionals, educators, parents & youth promoting diverse African-American heritage, Black culture, and racial equity 365 days a year. 

The James A McKee Association
Their organizational purpose, as stated in their by-laws, is to carry out research and education. The three primary areas of interest have been support of public information, education and participatory democracy.

Great Council State Park
Found on the site of the Shawnee village of Old Chillicothe, Great Council State Park celebrates and honors the history of the Native Americans and European settlers of the region.

Antiochiana
The archives and special collections of Antioch College