Masking Threshold

In Johnannes Grenzfurthner’s psycho-acoustic found footage, a sound-sensitive shut-in succumbs solipsistically to mental as much as otological illness

A striking chronicle told through a boldly experimental style that unsettles and accomplishes so much with so little.


Inventive, in a way that may recall such vaguely similar delusional-quest films about delusional outsiders as Pi or Bug.

Occasionally repellent, and mesmerizing in a droning-on to-the-point-you-tune-out way. But even at its most unpleasant...never less than fascinating

Johannes Grenzfurthner's Masking Threshold is a remarkable bit of DIY lunacy, a hand-crafted nightmare that combines elements of a diary film, a first-person, found-footage pseudo-documentary, a YouTube tutorial, and the Screenlife desktop aesthetic.

With one of the best screenplays of recent years, with the superb cinematography of Florian Hofer, and the awe-inducing editing by both Grenzfurthner and Hofer, Masking Threshold is a wry, dissective look at modern society's derangement.

For those willing to invest heart, mind, body, and some semblance of soul this is a unique, inspired, intelligent, and impossible to forget cinematic experience.

For those willing to pay attention and really watch this film, it leads to an interesting payoff and feels like a new thing, a new style, something they've not seen that many times before, if at all.

Masking Threshold achieves the boundary-pushing heights it aims for, making it feel more like an actual experience.

Masking Threshold shows the audience what may a little too much time on our hands and a lot of obsession may do to our minds.