Dallying along the streets of Berlin and Vienna, the latest film from American independent Ted Fendt drifts agreeably through the haze of three women’s creative ennui. Beautifully shot on warm 16mm, Outside Noise casts a languid, wryly comic eye on the restless contours of wanderlust and friendship.
Ted Fendt’s love for the filmmaking duo Straub-Huillet finds its richest realization in this playful ode to language, theology, and Dante’s Divine Comedy. As academic jousting sessions give way to interpersonal micro-dramas, Classical Period wryly interrogates the constitution of the scholastic ego.
Following a handful of acclaimed shorts, Ted Fendt made his feature debut with this hilarious comedy of social awkwardness. Beautifully textured, Short Stay mines untold depths of feeling from the spaces between words and places for a sharply observed portrait of the unproductive American male.
