A new documentary, "Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore" traces the career of the Oscar-winning actor, activist and author. Director Shoshannah Stern knew it was important for hearing audiences to understand how Matlin experiences the world — both Stern and Matlin are Deaf. @IndieWire talked to her and sound designer Bonnie Wild about how they achieved that. “Noise and sound are two different things. Sound is the process where there’s understanding of meaning, [while with] noise, there’s no meaning embedded in that. So when I use hearing aids, and Marlee uses hearing aids as well, I hear most things, right? But if I were to compare if it’s sound or noise, they become jumbled,” Stern explains. “People think that [hearing aids] fix the hearing loss, but it doesn’t fix the way the brain receives that information. So the brain still can’t quite process some of the sound that it’s receiving.”
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