Noise
2011 · 7m · Poland
Directed by Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski
Genres: experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
Un jeune homme hypersensible aux bruits s'isole dans son appartement, au cœur d'un immeuble où chaque son — trompette, dispute, perceuse — se matérialise en objets visibles qui envahissent son espace et alimentent sa paranoïa.
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The scouts
This is the kind of premise that makes you lean back—synesthesia as architectural horror, sound made flesh, paranoia literalized into an apartment stuffed with objects that shouldn't exist. Kijek and Adamski flip the sensory-disorder narrative on its head by refusing sympathy and instead weaponizing the protagonist's sensitivity into something genuinely uncanny.
A formally disciplined meditation on isolation that inherits from Tati's sound-design obsession and the Eastern European avant-garde tradition of embodying psychology through spatial composition; the restraint in cutting and the deliberate accumulation of objects create a controlled escalation that rewards close attention.
The film lives or dies on the decision to make sound *visible as solid matter*—floating trumpets, drifting argument-shapes, tools hanging in air—and that one choice transforms a simple premise about sensitivity into something that costs almost nothing to shoot but feels architecturally inevitable.
Reviews
Dans le cas de "Noise" (littéralement "Le bruit"), un court-métrage inclassable mêlant les techniques du stop-motion, du dessin, et de l'incrustation virtuelle, il s'agit de laisser poindre visuellement les sensations d'un homme isolé dans une chambre. Se laisser enivrer par une combinatoire proprement phénoménale, telle est donc l'expérience proposée par le couple de réalisateurs polonais.