Outside Noise

Currently shown at Mubi

Daniela is unsure about what to do next and her nights have turned sleepless. Mia is finishing a master’s degree she spontaneously started. Outside Noise is a film about friendship that follows their meetings in Berlin and Vienna over several months. Along with Natascha, another friend thinking of moving to Vienna, they wander around and talk. An insomniac’s hang out film.

Credits

Director

Ted Fendt

Writers

Daniela Zahlner
,
Mia Sellmann
and
Ted Fendt

DoP

Sage Einarsen + Britni West
and
Jenny Lou Ziegel

Location Sound

Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer
,
Melissa Dullius
and
Sean Dunn

Co-producers

Jeonju Cinema Project
and
Barbara Pichler, Gabriele Kranzelbinder (KGP Filmproduktion)

Producer

Zsuzsanna Kiràly

Technical information

Germany, South Korea, Austria 2021
Super 16 / DCP · 1 : 1.66 · Mono ·

With

Daniela Zahlner
,
Genevieve Havemeyer-King
,
Mia Sellmann
,
Hani Alaraj
,
Natascha Manthe
,
Manu Bäuerle
,
Katharina Maria Grabner
,
Ted Fendt
and
Stefanie Zingl

Funding provided by

Jeonju Cinema Project 2019

Festivals

FIDMarseille – International Competition – Special Mention of the Grand Prix
;
Jeonju International Film Festival – Jeonju Cinema Project 2019 Winner
;
BELDOCS
;
Art of the Real
;
Márgenes Film Festival
;
FICUNAM
;
Cinéma du Réel
;
Artists Film Festival
;
Beijing International Short Film Festival
;
KINOVISIONS
;
Unknown Pleasures
;
Diagonale
and
FICUNAM

Special Screenings/Exhibitions

Spoutnik Cinema, Geneva
;
Cinema L’Archipel, Paris
;
Art Cinema Off, Ghent
;
Retrospective @ Kino Petrohradská, Prague
and
Fluentum, "Kino" exhibition

World Sales

Shellac International Sales

Distributors

Anthology Film Archives, NY
,
Club Shellac, theatrical, VOD and DVD release, France
,
Arsenal, Institut für Film und Videokunst
,
Vitrine Filmes, Spain
and
Mubi

Bio/Filmo Ted Fendt

Ted Fendt is a filmmaker, translator, and film projectionist. He makes 16mm films in collaboration with a small crew and mostly non-professional casts. His films have screened internationally in cinemas large and small. Festival screenings have included the Berlinale Forum, Viennale, and New Directors/New Films and retrospectives of his work have been held in the United States, Argentina, Germany, and the Netherlands.

  • Outside Noise, feature film (2021)
  • Classical Period, feature film (2018)
  • Short Stay, feature film (2016)
  • Going Out, short film (2015)
  • Travel Plans, short film (2013)
  • Broken Specs, short film (2012)