A captive pianist performs her final sonata—for her captor. Silence has never been this loud.
A female pianist is taken captive by an older male piano teacher; with only a piano for company, she begins to play her last performance.
Acting
Alice Franssen's hands tell the whole story before she speaks.
Direction
Areyzaga weaponizes negative space and piano geometry.
Sound
The score *is* the psychological warfare. Diegetic brilliance.
Director
Alana Areyzaga
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Alana Areyzaga is also a classical pianist; the fingerings are authentic, performed by Franssen herself.
The title references both musical diminishment and the slow erosion of Aria's autonomy—decrescendo as narrative structure.
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