'Saidin Salkic is a Bosnian-Australian filmmaker whose recent prolific output includes Waiting for Sevdah (2017, 40 mins), Silence’s Crescendo (2018, 41 mins), The Shocking (2019, 27 mins) and The Human (2020, 48 mins). This discussion focuses on Silence’s Crescendo, a relentless and minimalist experimental horror chant, and links it to related national and international experimentation, trauma and surveillance capitalism.' (Introduction)