Mobiles in starring role
The Intimacy of Strangers, a 20 minute film aired at media club The Hospital on Monday night, has real people chatting on their mobiles as the stars.
The filmmakers filmed them first using a microphone hidden under a skateboard, then asked their permission afterwards. This means the body language of the callers is deliciously true to life.
The biggest star of the film is a bloke phoning a friend in South Africa from a trip to the UK, and outlining mutual friends' tangled emotional lives. It's not ideal, he says of a friends new man, "he still works with his ex-wife, so he sees her every day".
The film is upbeat - most of the callers are happy - and mobile phone masts play a haunting role in close ups - sometimes depicted surrounded by the voices of callers.
With mobile operator 02 saying the average mobile TV viewer in their trial watches TV for 23 minutes, the film would be ideal to watch on a mobile phone. And I bet the viewers would pick up the phone and call someone afterwards.
The film was directed by German Eva Weber while she was at the National Film and Television School and produced by Samantha Zarzosa. They plan to raise funds to make a feature-length film, based on the same idea, but fictional.
http://www.theintimacyofstrangers.com/
The Intimacy of Strangers, a 20 minute film aired at media club The Hospital on Monday night, has real people chatting on their mobiles as the stars.
The filmmakers filmed them first using a microphone hidden under a skateboard, then asked their permission afterwards. This means the body language of the callers is deliciously true to life.
The biggest star of the film is a bloke phoning a friend in South Africa from a trip to the UK, and outlining mutual friends' tangled emotional lives. It's not ideal, he says of a friends new man, "he still works with his ex-wife, so he sees her every day".
The film is upbeat - most of the callers are happy - and mobile phone masts play a haunting role in close ups - sometimes depicted surrounded by the voices of callers.
With mobile operator 02 saying the average mobile TV viewer in their trial watches TV for 23 minutes, the film would be ideal to watch on a mobile phone. And I bet the viewers would pick up the phone and call someone afterwards.
The film was directed by German Eva Weber while she was at the National Film and Television School and produced by Samantha Zarzosa. They plan to raise funds to make a feature-length film, based on the same idea, but fictional.
http://www.theintimacyofstrangers.com/
posted by Joia Shillingford at Tuesday, January 24, 2006
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