Canada
2023 17 mins
OV English
When you are hypersensitive to the everyday sounds around you, the ability to hear becomes a curse. After several therapies and an attempt to take her own life, Ava is up for an experimental treatment in an anechoic chamber, but what first appears to be an oasis of calm soon begins to crumble as her own body betrays her solitude. Starting as a 2022 Frontières pitch, Director Tamara Scherbak and writer/producer Christina Saliba shed light on a debilitating condition with WHITE NOISE, but push the envelope by imagining the extreme horrors of trying to rid yourself of real and existential pain. – Carolyn Mauricette