Thursday, 8 October 2009

Folk

As the Yorkshire saying goes - there's nothing as funny as folk. Recently I came across a video on YouTube filmed inside a lift in a high rise city building. During the making of the film relationships grow between the tenants using the lift and the cameraman and there are moments of great poignancy both tragic & humorous. I was so glad that I took the 20-odd minutes to watch it through as it has stayed with me and is something to treasure here.
"Filmmaker Marc Isaacs sets himself up in a London tower block lift. The residents come to trust him and reveal the things that matter to them creating a humorous and moving portrait of a vertical community."

This and other short films can be found at Futureshorts