Loudthings is an audiovisual account of an expedition into the innards of the computer. Using a set of elementary instructions such as modulation, masking, and feedback, Telcosystems programmed a self-organizing network of algorithmic processes for the creation of spatial image and sound. The result is a non-referential world which strains the senses; an exploration along the borders of human perception, through worlds of multiplying and mushrooming clouds of light and sound, through worlds of mesmerizing spatiality and interfering landscapes.

INFORMATION
2008 / 13′ / 35 mm / 1.85:1 / 5.1 surround
Image & sound by Telcosystems
Production by Spatial Media Laboratories
Distribution by Lightcone, Ralph McKay (US)
Supported by Nederlands Fonds voor de Film, Rotterdams Fonds voor de Film, ThuisKopie Fonds, Fonds BKVB

SCREENINGS
25th Anniversary Art Science, NL, 2015
First Person Cinema, University of Colorado, US, 2012
Le Cinématographe, FR, 2012
Mutek, CA, 2012
wats:ON festival Carnegie Mellon University, US, 2011
Milwaukee Film Festival, US, 2009
Lightcone Preview Show, FR, 2009
Exis, KO, 2009
D21 Kunstraum, DE, 2009
Ranimatie, NL, 2009
Ann Arbor Film Festival, US, 2009 & 2011
Go Short Film Festival, NL, 2009
Videomedeja, RS, 2008
International Short Film Festival Lille, FR, 2008
TIE Experimental Film Festival, US, 2008
Jihlava Int’l Documentary Film Festival, CZ, 2008
Spectropia, LV, 2008
Dutch Film Festival, NL, 2008
25 FPS Festival, HR, 2008
Curtas Vila do Conde, PT, 2008
Celluloid / Digitaal #7, NL, 2008
Videoex, CH, 2008 & 2010
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, CH, 2008
International Short Film Festival Hamburg, DE, 2008
Filmmuseum Experimenteel Weekend, NL, 2008
Nemo festival, Paris, FR, 2008
EMAF, Osnabrueck, DE, 2008
International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL, 2008 — world premiere, Tiger Shorts Competition

AWARDS
Grand Prix, 25 FPS Festival, HR, 2008
Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival, US, 2009