Movies: Noise

A stop motion/collaged based independent short film plays with the recontextualisation of memories and how time distorts them....

Woody Woodpecker tries to get a night's rest in a bell tower....

Lisbon, 1980, the city, the intensity, the chaos, the noise, the crowd. Overwhelmed by the commotion, a young woman sets off in search of peace in the palace gardens of Sintra. Her red umbrella glides across the pearly whiteness of the rising mist....

The ruin pub phenomenon in Budapest jolted the city to life like an explosion in the early 2000s. The capital, which had flourished and buzzed with culture at the turn of the century, was levelled in an instant by the Second World War. The people liv...

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When Popeye takes the baby for a walk in the stroller, the little one won't be quiet unless he's sleeping. Of course there's no end of noisiness....

Indonesian noise, the largest scene of extreme and independent music scene is the biggest in South-East Asia. This documentary gives an extensive overview with numerous bands, artists and speakers, all from Jakarta, Bandung, Bekasi, Yogyakarta, and T...

An ode to the economics of electricity and comfort in an era of abundance....

Poopdeck Pappy has a hangover. He asks Popeye to help him by keeping the noise down. Among the disturbances he deals with: a crying baby across the way, a horse-drawn milk truck, a factory whistle, a radio, a traffic accident, a construction site, an...

Barney is settling in for his hibernation when a squirrel spots his bedtime snack: a bowl of walnuts. The squirrel sneaks in and wakes Barney up. Barney chases out the squirrel, who proceeds to drop first the nut, then himself, down Barney's noisy ti...

Trapped in the swirling thoughts of a late night shift, a restaurant worker receives a cryptic phone call, guiding her to a refuge from the noise....

At a wild nightclub rave, Steven's joyful night takes a nightmarish twist when he encounters his best friend's horrifying doppelgänger, leading him to a chilling discovery and an unsettling realization....

In April 2008, LRS toured across the USA and met some amazing female noise artists. This is what it is like to be a girl of noise....

A man tries to find a moment of silence amidst the chaos of a busy city and his own troubled mind....

A document of energy forms in states of vibrating transmutation, this audio-visual composition uses LEDs, strobes and torches to create a mechanical "light-score."...

A man hears a noise and goes to investigate....

DRIFT is a collaboration started in 1991 between visual artist Leah Singer and musician and poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. DRIFT is an immersive sonic/visual environment consisting of music, sounds and texts by Ranaldo in response to two 16mm analy...

A short documentary with funk, fashion and noise, with intimate stories from students and artisans from New Zealand and India pursuing a responsible fashion future....

An artist living through a difficult breakup comes to the studio and has severe hearing problems. Only a perfectly recreated reproduction of Jackson Pollock can restore order to the hero's life, but perhaps that's the problem....

After gaining alcohol-fueled superpowers, Ricardo —a young punk from the outskirts— sets out to change society. But one brutal mistake will ignite an international conflict, with him at the heart of the storm....