Continuing the ongoing series of collaborative sound pieces developed by the Dear Doc Fellows during each edition of Doc’s Kingdom – International Seminar on Documentary Film, Sonic Letters #03: A Collective/Inarticulate Harmony is composed from voices, field recordings, film excerpts, and fragments of thought and sensation gathered over the course of the programme with the same title. Rather than assembling these materials into a unified or authoritative account, it embraces their differences, tensions, and overlaps.

What emerges is not a singular narrative, but a shared space shaped through accumulation and relation—a collective inarticulate harmony, where voices do not resolve into clarity or consensus, but remain multiple, situated, and in dialogue. The piece lingers in this condition, exploring how a collective might be sensed without being fixed, and how listening can become a way of being together without erasing divergence.

Imagined and composed by:
Mariana Pinho and Henrique Varanda (editing and sound mix), David Castiella, Diogo Machado Ferreira, João Pedro Soares, Jonathan Ali, Léna Lewis-King, Nafis Fathollahzadeh, Violena Ampudia (Dear Doc Fellows 2025), Sílvia das Fadas (Dear Doc Tutor), Catarina Boieiro and Stefanie Baumann (co-directors of Doc’s Kingdom).

Voices and film excerpts from and around:
CAMP, Grupo Zero, Mujeres Creando, Ogawa Pro, Isael and Sueli Maxakali with collaborators, Video Tracts for Palestine, Polifonias (by Pierre-Marie Goulet).