THE END OF QUIET
Filmmakers Kasper Bisgaard and Mikael Lypinski bring Tribeca 2025 audiences documentary, THE END OF QUIET, a thought-provoking exploration of human connectivity. In an isolated town in West Virginia, the world’s largest radio telescope can pick up the murmurings of signals across the universe. To achieve this, the telescope resides in the Quiet Zone, the only place in the U.S. where Wi-Fi and cell phone signals are not permitted.
Part 1: The Quiet
Through the everyday lives of its residents and the beauty of the sound design by Freja Printz and Mathias Gaarde Mikkelsen, the audience experiences what the world might be like without round-the-clock communication. Dr. Jay Lockman, an astronomer at The Green Bank Observatory, has lived in town for over two decades with his wife. He has accepted that technology could eventually disrupt any messages from beyond our atmosphere. 
How do they fight the boredom? Brionna and her gun enthusiast grandfather, David, spend time together shooting his 37 guns and rifles and blowing things up. Choosing to reside in The Quiet Zone due to electromagnetic hypersensitivity, Clover and her dog, Beautiful, live for landline phone calls from her husband, who lives abroad. Her original poetry also serves as beautiful transition audio. A lonely but contented elderly vet named Willard spends his days drinking a lot of coffee and attending local funerals. Kirsten, 17, and Frankie, 23, are a young, engaged couple who dream of having a child.
Part 2: The Noise
Halfway through the film, we jump three years, only to discover that there are 70-80 Wi-Fi Hotspots within 2 miles of the Observatory disrupting the data. Oh, how times have changed. Willard has passed away. Clover is now almost entirely estranged from her long-distance husband. Our young couple now has a tiny toddler, Leo. It is unclear if they are still together. Our grandfather figure has tumbled down the right-wing rabbit hole, beginning a rift between him and his granddaughter, Brionna. It is honestly such a cliche.
The film delves into disconnection and isolation as much as the bleak effects of doom-scrolling. What would happen if the global grid ceased to exist? With so much new technology dependent on Wi-Fi, would society remain civil? A study of connection in every sense, THE END OF QUIET begs some of the most massive questions in the universe and beyond.
World Premiere
The End of Quiet
Documentary Competition
Feature | Denmark | 83 MINUTES | English | English subtitles The end of quiet
THE FILM IS SUPPORTED BY
DANISH FILM INSTITUTE
THE SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE
DEN VESTDANSKE FILMPULJE DR
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Kasper Bisgaard & Mikael Lypinski
PRODUCED BY Sara Stockmann
CO-PRODUCED Daniel Pynnönen
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY Mikael Lypinski
MUSIC COMPOSED BY Uno Helmersson
EDITED BY Charlotte Munch Bengtsen, Johan Löfstedt SFK
SOUND DESIGN BY Freja Printz, Mathias Gaarde Mikkelsen
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