The Color Is Black

Here is darkness, construed as manifestations of the color black through history, space, time, and in the natural world.

2004 ShortDocs Challenge: Darkness

2004 / Jerome Schmidt / Rick Moody / TCF, USA

Here is darkness, construed as manifestations of the color black through history, space, time, and in the natural world.

This audio composition is a collaboration between author Rick Moody and French sound designer Jerome Schmidt.

The Color is Black was commissioned for the 2004 ShortDocs: Stories About Darkness.


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Rick Moody

Rick Moody is the author of five novels, three collections of stories, a memoir, and, most recently, a volume of essays On Celestial Music and Other Adventures in Listening.


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