Presented at
A New HOPE (2022),
July 22, 2022, 9 p.m.
(50 minutes).
Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his research lead him? *Masking Threshold* combines a chamber play, a scientific procedural, an unpacking video, and a DIY YouTube channel while suggesting endless vistas of existential pain and decay. Glimpse the world of the nameless protagonist in this eldritch tale, which is by no means for the faint of heart.<br><br>A discussion and Q&A with the filmmaker will follow.<br>
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Johannes Grenzfurthner
**Johannes Grenzfurthner** manipulates people to positively respond to his lies and made-up realities, and he feeds off these emotions. He is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, author, and performer. He is the founder and artistic director of monochrom, an internationally acting art and theory group and film production company. *Boing Boing* referred to him as a "leitnerd," a wordplay that ironically hints at his role in nerd/hacker/art culture. His last films were the feature length documentaries *Traceroute* (2016) and *Glossary of Broken Dreams* (2018). He's working on two more feature films, including the sci-fi comedy *Je Suis Auto* and the documentary *Hacking at Leaves*. He is head of Arse Elektronika, a sex and tech festival in San Francisco, and organizer of Roboexotica, the Festival for Cocktail-Robotics in Vienna.
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