Masking Threshold

By Johannes Grenzfurthner

Runtime: 90 minutes.

Online release/sales start summer 2022

Theatrical release: Fantastic Fest 2021

Masking Threshold will be available on Vimeo On Demand.

Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his research lead him?

Masking Threshold combines a chamber play, a scientific procedural, an unpacking video, and a DIY YouTube channel while suggesting endless vistas of existential pain and decay. Glimpse the world of the nameless protagonist in this eldritch tale, which is by no means for the faint of heart.

Ethan Haslam, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Jason Scott Sadofsky, Bronwynn Mertz-Penzinger, Caroline St. Clair, Ishan Raval, Kudra Owens, David Fine, Offerus Ablinger, Katharina Rose, Roland Gratzer, Matthias Ramon Jaklitsch, Harald Homolka-List, Patrick Michael Greene, Max Grodénchik, Paul Poet, Kero Fichter, Jasmin Hagendorfer… and many others.

With artworks and animations by arx anima.

Produced and edited by Johannes Grenzfurthner and Florian Hofer.

Written by Johannes Grenzfurthner and Samantha Lienhard.

Sound design, re-recording, and foley created by Lenja Gathmann.

Music by Mathias Augdoppler and Tina Gruensteidl and many more.

Practical effects by Steve Tolin, Martin Nechvatal, Roman Braunhofer, Thomas Kranabetter, and many more

Casting by Julianne Gabert

Cinematography and color grading by Florian Hofer     

Film editing by Johannes Grenzfurthner and Florian Hofer  

  

Score and soundscapes by Tina „Tina 303“ Gruensteidl and Mathias Augdoppler  

  

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