LIDF

Eva Weber
UK • 19mins • 2005
11.45 at The Stevenson Theatre (double bill with Thirty Square Metres and a Balcony)

Full Frame Documentary Film Festival: Winner, President’s Award
Platforma Video6: Grand Jury Prize

The Intimacy of Strangers is a story of life, love, loss and hope – entirely constructed out of real, overheard mobile phone conversations of random strangers. Exploring the conflict between the private and public, between being intimate yet distant the film weaves these seemingly random exchanges into a modern-day love story: from first attraction to the bitter end. A portrait of urban solitude and longing, the documentary reflects on whether these conversations can say something deeper about our world, our underlying fears and hopes, and the role of the mobile phone in this. Is it a mere instrument of our desires, or does it actually change the way we relate to each other?

Discussion 30 mins – Speakers TBC