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PINK NOISE

Written, Directed, Production Design by Nickole Klarou

Release Date June 2023

Runtime 19 mins

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After a supernatural encounter with an herbal juice, a foreign exchange student from Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) unearths the truth about her new, retro American suburb.
Pink Noise is a fantasy-thriller that follows a foreign exchange student from Ivory Coast, who unearths the truth about her new suburb after a supernatural encounter with an herbal juice.

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I grew up in the suburbs, and I find that pink noise and suburbia are VERY synonymous. Pink noise is a sonic hue that contains low frequencies that are much more powerful than its higher frequencies. This noise can be described as “even” or “flat”. Nature is filled with pink noise: rain, wind, and rustling leaves. These are sounds that we can hear in the suburbs. The most compelling quality of pink noise is that it reduces brainwaves and improves sleep.

 

 

I can attest that suburbia is quiet, equalized, and even: The vernaculars. The clothes. The mentalities. Beliefs. Many individuals including myself have experienced the lack of awareness and consciousness displayed and in obtained from living in suburbia. Metaphysically speaking, lacking awareness and knowledge is being on "low frequency" or being asleep. Pink Noise explores the dark, unseen entity that causes this sleep in American suburbia and in the world as a whole.

themes

The American Dream, Immigration, Inferiority Complex, Suburbia, Sleep, Nativism, Xenophobia, Erasure, the Supernatural, Light, Liberation

CAST

✩ ˗ˏˋ Mariama Condéˎˊ˗ ✩ as Zenovia

✩˗ˏˋKalie-Ann Nassoura ˎˊ˗ ✩ as Barbie

✩ ˗ˏˋ Tai Bacani ˎˊ˗✩ as Astrid

✩ ˗ˏˋ Isabella Avery Sousa ˎˊ˗✩ as Summer

✩ ˗ˏˋ Marvin Novogrodski ˎˊ˗ ✩ as Roy 

✩˗ˏˋ  Annalise Englert ˎˊ˗ ✩ as Juniper

✩ ˗ˏˋ Chetna Ayyagari ˎˊ˗✩ as Hazel 

✩ ˗ˏˋ Salomon Klarou ˎˊ˗ ✩ as Pizza Deliverer 

✩ ˗ˏˋ Sarah Vespermann ˎˊ˗✩ as Teacher 

✩˗ˏˋ  Stephanie Kennedy ˎˊ˗ ✩ as Airport Check-in Agent

✩˗ˏˋ  Choyyang Cheshatsang ˎˊ˗ ✩ as student

Ritual Members

✩˗ˏˋSalomon Klarou ˎˊ˗ ✩

✩˗ˏˋKyree Saintilus  ˎˊ˗ ✩

✩˗ˏˋShakeem Exavier ˎˊ˗ ✩

✩˗ˏˋAah’king Devoe  ˎˊ˗ ✩

CREW

˖⁺‧₊˚✧Roslyn Klarou - Producer & Script Supervisor

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ Lauren Rausaw - Co-Producer

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ Natcha Ratanakul - Assistant Director, Grip

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ Liujing Yu - Director of Photography

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ William Blythe - AC, Grip,  Sound, Gaffer 

 

˖⁺‧₊˚✧Annalise Englert - Make-up Artist 

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ Salomon Klarou - 2nd AC, Grip, Composer  Sound Designer

˖⁺‧₊˚✧Mya Tomlinson - Sound Designer

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ Parker Done -  Production Assistant, Script Supervisor, Grip

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ Dawson Curtis - Grip, 2nd AC, Sound

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ Manon Crespin Grip, Sound

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ Elizaberh Xu- Sound, Grip 

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ Lukas Gordon - Sound, Grip

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ Lee Moitoso - Sound, Grip 

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ Bella Bergam - Sound, Grip, 2nd AC

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ Preeti Ganesh - 2nd AC, Grip, Set Dresser

˖⁺‧₊˚✧ Bella Brogh - 2nd AC, Grip, Sound, Set Dresser

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