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"Jocasta…is a stunning example of how original and diverse independent film making can, and should be."
      ∼ Dan Angeloro, New Roots Project

"Kermani's music blows through the dance like a changeable wind delivering heavy chords, high dissonant tones, chimes, a piano melody, the patter of distant drums…"
      ∼ Deborah Jowitt, The New York Times

"Elise Kermani's music and sound design compliment the pitch-perfect atmospheric work of her follow collaborators with hinting sounds seeping in and out of my awareness. It is almost as if the work visually, physically, and sonically treads the point of losing consciousness, as if we are all pulled into that moment between waking and drifting into sleep where multiple selves might appear and recede, and time and space observe different rules."
      ∼ Maura Donohue, The Culturebot

"Elise Kermani's compelling sound score…sounds like someone is playing a harmonica while slowly crushing it in a grip vice, a texture I find thrilling."
      ∼ Theodore Bale, Dance Source Houston

"The collaborative effort between various artists creates a visually striking film rich in sound textures and layers of images and language."
      ∼ Peter Biskind, executive director of Film Columbia Festival

"The quiet tickings and vibrations, the tinkle of breaking glass, and the flashes of Chopin piano music in Kermani's score enhance the fragility of Repair's atmosphere - that of a world out of kilter in which the rational and the irrational make poetry together."
      ∼ Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice

"…a vivid sonic atmosphere…"
      ∼ Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

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