Olga Pavlenko’s animation invokes memory and sensory experience — the title itself gestures toward the olfactory, toward how smell carries memory and place. The film is a meditation on how we remember, on the traces that remain when we inhabit a space.
Working with Pavlenko’s visual language required a composer willing to work at the same register of intimacy and specificity. Traditional film scoring — lush orchestration, dramatic sweeps — would have been inappropriate. Instead, the film called for sound that emerged from the everyday, the domestic, the lived-in.
