Balcony (Original Documentary Soundtrack)

The film Balcony is a PTSD (Post Trauma Stress Disorder) self-reflective journey, exploring the outside in order to come to terms with what goes on inside Man’s troubled soul.

50 min Arthouse Documentary tells a story of every day Competing with post trauma. For a year, Elad (the protagonist) never exits his home apartment. He is in agony, afraid of the outside. Every normal life situation can evoke an amplified emotion of anxiety and fear. Trying to maintain a balanced facade as the people he loves try to connect with him, leaving them outside. A wall constructed as a border between two worlds. The balcony put him as an outside viewer of life. Trying to make sense of his own life.

We made this soundtrack in order to portrait and tell the protagonist's subconscious and emotional journey. Trying to express the ongoing time travel inside Elads (the protagonist) mind as he constantly moves from a safe and warm to cold piercing anxiety. Using the sound of 90ies rock / pop electric guitar and piano contrasted with everyday city noise sounds. Music was made by layering fragments of live recordings. Instruments and Noise were introduced with time and perspective heavy sound effects, mainly delays and stereo manipulation that hold certain notes, replay them while degrading and evolving with every instance of the repetition. Notes degrade and evolve into a giant shadow of the original instance.Time is standing still, as the moment of Trauma is experienced again and again. Time perception manipulation is trying to express the Complex state of PTSD troubled souls. Experience reality as a Hyper Realist movement. Blurring the border between past and present, good and bad. Cinematic atmosphere and landscape were made using indie home studio resources. Orchestra parts were made with noise samples, electric guitar, Electric Piano and My daughters instruments as children xylophone and melodica.

The Balcony Film touched me deeply as I know PTSD from home. As my father is an Army veteran is suffering for the majority part of his life. As a child I acknowledged my father’s war story and the day to day of PTSD that formed my family. Over the years I have been fascinated by war and western movies and my love for the music of Ennio Marricone, Neil Young and Jonny Greenwood evolved into Balcony soundtrack, expressing the hurt human soul oscillates it and makes it resonate.



Balcony Is a 50 minute Documentary Film by: Elad Davidovitch Schicowich released in jerusalem film festival 2020.

Film Synopsis:
Elad's entire world is falling apart.
A breakup urges him to move out and find a new place,
On the balcony above “Occupiers Street,”
While confronting traumatic memories from his past,
He seeks to reconnect with the people close to him
And with those observed who remain somehow distant.
Feeling socially invisible, On the most patriotic week of the year,
His feelings of guilt and social isolation reach a climax.

A young man observes Israeli society from his balcony.
This deep and painful reflection opens past wounds.
On the week between Israel’s Memorial and Independence Day
He needs to focus on himself.


Film Credits:
Director, Producer, Writer: Elad Davidovitch Schicowich
Cinematographer, Editor: Elad Davidovitch Schicowich
Sound Design: Yochai Ben Zvi
Original Music: Edan Sasson
Research: Elad Davidovitch Schicowich


Soundtrack Album Credits:
Music Composed & performed by Edan Sasson.
Mix and mastering by Junun
Cover picture by Elad Davidovitch Schicowich


Thanks to:
Elad Davidovitch Schicowich, Dror H Shiman, Tal Reznik, Naama Sasson.