Kent Sparling
After early stints in theatrical sound and lighting design, Kent Sparling spent three years at Sound Transform Systems, hand-building Serge Modular analog synthesizers for musicians such as John McEntire and Trent Reznor. He departed STS in 1995 to work in film sound in Vancouver, BC, and since 1997 has been employed as a sound designer and re-recording mixer at Skywalker Sound, with credits on Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette; Mike Mills’ Thumbsucker; Spike Jonze’s Adaptation and her; and We Own the Night and Two Lovers by James Gray. His deep ties to independent film are exemplified by his work on Lance Hammer’s Ballast, Miranda July’s The Future, Braden King’s Here, Bluebird from Lance Edmands, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints by David Lowery, Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves and Ira Sachs’ Love is Strange.
Filmography (28)
I Love Boosters
Minari
Uncle Frank
Kajillionaire
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Pete's Dragon
Certain Women
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Night Moves
Epic
Please Give
Two Lovers
The Flyboys
We Own the Night
Marie Antoinette
Lost in Translation
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Adaptation.
CQ
What Lies Beneath
The Virgin Suicides
The Yards
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Arlington Road
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Sphere
Wag the Dog
