Outside Noise – students of noble specialties on the verge of release into a free life ' External noise' shot on 16 mm film, it looks naturalistic, this is a real documentary, because it is completely freed from staged moments. This is the case when everything happens so naturally that life itself goes before your eyes.
The film focuses on the details of the character and place rather than the plot or ideas, focusing on building your own rhythm. It is difficult to describe – it is filled with fleeting and insignificant details, it would seem, but its defining feature is simplicity and stylistic naturalism.
In Outside Noise, we see Daniela (Daniela Zalner), a young graduate student suffering from insomnia. First she visits her friend Mia (Mia Sellman) in Berlin, and then when Mia comes to visit her in Vienna, taking Natascha Manthe with her, they spend some time together.
Ted Fendt fills the film with quiet energy, which is still in the body of this work, but the director rhymes the slowness with the state of one of the heroines - it is akin to the state of semi-fainting Daniela.
The film shows a transitional moment for students who do not know what to do or how their lives will turn out. It's time for them to try, take temporary jobs (with the certainty that it's just for the money), travel and not take trivial photos. But in reality, there are people who have come off the pages of novels – they really exist. Because they made a step, crazy and reckless – in contrast, the actors are very careful, they are afraid to make a mistake, because life is one, in a single copy.
The director said in an interview that he likes to show characters walking, so he shows interesting places in the city. This is a way of showing certain areas of the city to give an idea of the atmosphere of the area. In 'Outside Noise' as Daniela walks through Berlin, she walks through places he has lived for months and explored on foot. It was also a way of showing that the person had nothing to do and left the house just to walk. So it is, from the film you can find out which places in Vienna deserve attention: the Globe Museums, Emperanto, Empress Sissi, as well as the Jelinek Cafe, whose building is part of the UNESCO cultural heritage. Mentally, I noted that this is a very interesting move, in the dialogues add background information about the city.
Ted Fendt said, I just think it’s one of the most unique things in cinema. There's a quote I always come back to from Tag Gallagher's book about Roberto Rossellini. Cinema gives you a direct experience of a person you don’t have in literature or other arts. It’s an enhanced quality of everything you see. Like a picture, it has index qualities that are enhanced by increasing, projecting, color quality and simply being in a cinema environment with a focused audience. It looks like a phantom, but at the same time has this very immediate quality.
I think this film is a very unusual, art house documentary experiment. He is contemplative, unhurried, uncomplicated. He throws aside extraneous noise, for an hour the viewer can focus, paradoxically, on himself.