Relying on the work of Letonian scientist Constantine Raudive, Marko Mazibrada, a psychiatrist disappointed in his profession, performs experiments aimed to empirically determine whether there is life after death, by phenomenon of apophenia. Together with Simon Besedić, alcoholic and editor of Armageddon Monthly, the magazine that deals with the paranormal phenomena, Nikola Mrzopoljić, manual labourer and paterfamilias, and Eta, pharmacist and unusual prostitute which Besedić offers a relationship, he experiences a sequence of weird events...
Acting
Đurica's Besedić is spectacularly pathetic, magnetic in self-destruction
Direction
Malešević turns 183 minutes into a trance state, not a marathon
Production
Serbian decay as character—crumbling apartments, dead industries, hollow rituals
Director
Marin Malešević
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Raudive's actual 1971 book 'Breakthrough' claimed to record voices of the dead on tape; he was a Latvian psychologist who spent decades perfecting his technique—this film treats his work as both punchline and genuine existential technology.
The title refers to seeing patterns in random data—the film itself becomes an exercise in whether we're imposing meaning on these men's suffering, or if Malešević has actually structured revelation into the noise.
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