With a collaborative spirit, Preemptive Listening counts on the participation of artists and experimental musicians from different parts of the world: names as Laurie Spiegel, Sarah Davachi, Moor Mother, Raven Chacon or Camille Norment, who shape different compositions, granting, in the process, multiple meanings to the same object: the siren. This object that makes us company in our contemporary life on daily basis works as a starting point for a reflection on the listening and the way in which senses surrounding us, shape our vision –own and collective– of the world since unmemorable times. This way, Aura Satz builds a speech coming from a specific element, though it contains a universality which today becomes more relevant than ever. Because before the hopelessness produced by brutality and hypervigilance of our times, Preemptive Listening reminds us that there is always the chance to redefine the symbols that have defined us as humanity. And, approaching concepts from post humanism and environmentalism, once again it puts the idea of an allegedly cancelled future under consideration. In Satz’s words, it’s about understanding the siren as “wake up call” and “a call to action” at the same time. Her long film transmits this encounter between past, present and future, as well as the one between word, sound and image, while a voice off dives us into a political and poetical journey, to which, as in our own reality, we can only access through our senses. Daniela Urzola