{"id":40307,"date":"2023-07-23T20:01:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40307"},"modified":"2023-07-10T04:23:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T08:23:27","slug":"white-noise-2022-fantasia-film-festival-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/23\/white-noise-2022-fantasia-film-festival-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"White Noise (2022) [Fantasia Film Festival 2023]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/whitenoise-still.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/whitenoise-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/whitenoise-still.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/whitenoise-still-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/whitenoise-still-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>Writer\/Director Tamara Scherbak\u2019s (with co-writer Christina Saliba) short indie thriller \u201cWhite Noise\u201d is a weird, and twisted film, and one that reminded me a lot of \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d in the end. It\u2019s a movie about madness and over stimulation that ends up driving a young woman to the brink of insanity. One of the things that I quite enjoyed about \u201cWhite Noise\u201d is that it plays on such an unusual element in anxiety.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite Noise\u201d follows college student Ava, who suffers from an extreme hyper-sensitivity to sound. When this reaches new terrifying heights, her doctor enrolls her in an experimental trial involving an anechoic chamber: the world&#8217;s quietest room. Hoping to cure her affliction, she gets more than she bargained for.<\/p>\n<p>Overstimulation is a surefire sign of anxiety and mental illness, but Ava is experiencing a sensitivity to hearing that she\u2019s sure indicates something so much deeper going on. There\u2019s never an indication as to what is driving Ava mad and what is affecting her hearing; there\u2019s a surefire allusion toward mental illness, but there\u2019s also the potential that something else might be hiding under the surface. One thing that Tamara Sherbak touches on well is our sometimes inability to cope with the world around us and the sensory overload that can make living impossible for us.<\/p>\n<p>The sound design by Sylvain Bellemare is absolutely fantastic as character Ava experiences sheer horror at every click and flick and whistle, and has no idea how to cope with her elements. Star Bahia Watson is great in her leading role, portraying the sadly unraveling Ava who is anxious to learn what it is like without her world and sound pollution. Once she steps in to the anechoic chamber, she gets so much more than she bargained for. \u201cWhite Noise\u201d is a stellar short thriller, and one that really touches on the idea of insanity and how sometimes it only takes a little nudge to push us over the edge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>This year the Fantasia International Film Festival runs from July 20<sup>th<\/sup> to August 9<sup>th<\/sup> at Montreal.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer\/Director Tamara Scherbak\u2019s (with co-writer Christina Saliba) short indie thriller \u201cWhite Noise\u201d is a weird, and twisted film, and one that reminded me a lot of \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d in the end. It\u2019s a movie about madness and over stimulation that ends up driving a young woman to the brink of insanity. One of the things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2497,1284,12],"tags":[501,938,1087],"class_list":["post-40307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-fantasia-fest","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40309,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40307\/revisions\/40309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}