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SLAMDANCE ’25: Animated Short

Title: Just White Noise (2025) Director: Anya Berlowa Writer: Anya Berlowa IMDb Plot: Just White Noise offers a glance into human psychology and behavior amid global problems.  Joe Says: Just White Noise is not only beautifully animated but damn socially relevant.

Holy anxiety attacks, Batman! Anya Berlowa’s animated short film Just White Noise concisely encapsulates the hazardous volume of pandemonium that assaults us and captures the sonic disruptions in a visual way. Society on a whole should be so lucky to find solace in noise-dampening headphones.

Anya Berlowa’s micro-short film – one-minute long, but man, it feels like a month – was hand-drawn, frame by frame. Just White Noise features a lone, innocent figure who is presented with a hallway of doors. Behind each door is pure sound which grows behind each opening. The room shakes and cracks as the pressure builds. The calm blues are splashed with red. Soon, the lone figures realizes that the only escape is to shut it all out. Rational and spot-on-wisdom that has never been more relevant than with today’s clamor.

Berlowa uses her art as a glance into human psychology and the conflict all around. The silent understanding, of course, is that even by shutting out the noise, the larger problems still exist.

Just White Noise is not only beautifully animated but damn socially relevant.

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