“While the silent video plays,” says Sofia Mattioli, “what I want everyone to do is go into their own space in their own head, and imagine the piece of music they would put with it.” Fascinated by the relationship between music and silence, the London-based director made this soundless piece as a creative spur to leading electronic musicians Jamie xx, Four Tet, Koreless and John Talabot, each one agreeing to write a two-minute piece of music they heard when they saw it. The project explores a continuous series of blending elements, as the full film is rearranged to each track, Mattioli's own response of color, movement and shape.

Entitled Continuum, the four final films are a close collaboration with childhood friend and artist Rebecca Salvadori, and will be revealed at this weekend’s III Points festival in Miami, and on NOWNESS after that. It was the xx member’s solo track "Sleep Sound" that inspired Mattioli to make an extraordinary performance film earlier this year with the Manchester Deaf Centre, and the children lost in dance to music they couldn’t hear were the catalyst for this new project. “We shot Continuum on an iPhone,” adds Mattioli. “As long as you have a good idea, and you have belief, it can be very simple.”

Tom Horan is Culture Editor-at-Large at NOWNESS.

The concluding part of Continuum is forthcoming on NOWNESS. The full film premieres at III Points festival, The Light Box, Goldman Warehouse, Miami between 2pm and 4pm, October 11, where Sofia Mattioli will take part in a Q&A hosted by NOWNESS.