White Noise (2020 film)

White Noise is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Daniel Lombroso. The film covers three figures in the alt-right movement: Richard B. Spencer, Mike Cernovich, and Lauren Southern.

White Noise
Film poster
Directed byDaniel Lombroso
Produced byKasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg
Music byGil Talmi
CinematographyDaniel Lombroso
Edited byCarlos Rojas Felice
Production
company
Release date
  • June 20, 2020 (2020-06-20) (AFI Docs)
Running time
94 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States[1]
LanguageEnglish

Interviews

Production

White Noise is the first full-length documentary produced by The Atlantic. Daniel Lombroso, the director, focused on the alt-right after the 2016 United States presidential election. One of his interests was answering the question, "What made white-power ideology so intoxicating, especially among my generation?"[4] Part of his interest in the topic came from having grandparents who survived of the Holocaust.[4] Lombroso proposed documentary coverage about the alt-right movement to The Atlantic. After the Unite the Right rally, a full-length documentary was green-lit, and Lombroso said he worked "almost exclusively" on White Noise after 2017. Lombroso had done prior documentary shorts on the alt-right, which he used to build further connections to alt-right activists. Lombroso focused on the three people he identified as the most influential, then persistently worked to get revealing interviews with them.[5]

Release

White Noise premiered at AFI Docs on June 10, 2020.[4] IndieWire highlighted it as one of the 10 most interesting films in the line-up.[6]

Reception

Writing for Variety Owen Gleiberman called the film a "lively and disturbing documentary" that exposes alt-right celebrities as "deeply shallow and self-deluded hypocrites".[2] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "sheds a much-needed spotlight" on its subjects, but the focus comes at the expense of being more informative about the wider alt-right movement.[3] Chris Barsanti of The Playlist gave the film an "A," saying that it "reveals the grift behind the genocidal rhetoric" of the alt-right. [7] On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 8.9/10, as of July 31, 2020.[8]

References
  1. "White Noise". AFI Docs. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  2. Gleiberman, Owen (July 10, 2020). "White Noise: Film Review". Variety. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  3. Scheck, Frank (June 24, 2020). "White Noise: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  4. Lombroso, Daniel (June 11, 2020). "Four Years Embedded With the Alt-Right". The Atlantic. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  5. Wissot, Lauren (June 18, 2020). ""This Whole Movement is about Performance": Daniel Lombroso on his Alt-Right Doc White Noise". Filmmaker. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  6. Kohn, Eric (June 16, 2020). "AFI Docs 2020: 10 of the Most Exciting Films in This Year's Lineup". IndieWire. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  7. Barsanti, Chris (June 20, 2020). "Alt-Right Documentary 'White Noise' Reveals the Grift Behind the Genocidal Rhetoric [AFI DOCS Festival Review]". The Playlist. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
  8. "White Noise (2020)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
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