Topic: Sound Design

Ben Joseph Stewart discusses his film Awake in the Darkness, which follows Aubrey Marcus through a week-long darkness retreat in Germany's Black Forest. The retreat concluded just as the 2020 global lockdowns began, a timing Stewart finds significant. He describes the film's focus on sound design and Marcus's internal psychological journey, framing it as a story of human self-discovery rather than a conspiracy documentary.

Ben Joseph Stewart describes his latest film, Awake in the Darkness, which documents Aubrey Marcus undergoing a week-long darkness retreat in Germany's Black Forest. Marcus entered the retreat in January 2020 and emerged just as the global lockdowns began, a timing Stewart finds highly significant. The film explores the psychological journey of self-discovery and the importance of rites of passage, which the hosts agree are dangerously absent in modern Western culture.