Question 1

How did the composer incorporate personal experience into the film's score?

Accepted Answer

Composer Tina 'Tina 303' Gruensteidl incorporated her own experiences as a long-time tinnitus sufferer into the score.

Question 2

What personal experience influenced the director's approach to the plot elements and experiments?

Accepted Answer

Many plot elements and experiments are borrowed from director/writer Johannes Grenzfurthner's own sense of revulsion, including his initial aversion to slugs that subsided after caring for them.

Question 3

What childhood inspiration sparked the director's fascination with visual magnification?

Accepted Answer

Director/writer Johannes Grenzfurthner cites an episode of the British series UFO he watched as a kid, where blow-ups of everyday objects looked bizarre without dimensions, as the origin of his fascination with visual magnification.

Question 4

Where is the story set versus where was the film actually shot?

Accepted Answer

The story takes place in early summer 2019 in a house in Apopka, Florida, but the film was shot in an apartment in Vienna, Austria, with props brought from Florida to maintain American averageness.

Question 5

What is the protagonist's occupation and main conflict in the film?

Accepted Answer

A skeptic IT worker conducts experiments in his makeshift home-lab to cure his harrowing hearing impairment, in a story that combines chamber play, scientific procedural, and existential pain.

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