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A person is isolated at the Pater Noster lighthouse in Hamneskär during the Gothenburg Film Festival. Stock Photography.
The theme of this year’s film festival in Gothenburg is social distances. The festival takes place digitally, but to reinforce the theme, some physical screenings are held in three isolated locations, writes Kulturnytt of Swedish radio.
Among other things, a person will be selected to isolate themselves and enjoy the cinema for a week at the Pater Noster lighthouse on the arid and windswept island of Hamneskär in Bohuslän.
The other two places where selected people can experience the set are in the middle of the arena at Scandinavium in Gothenburg and at the Draken cinema in the same city.
Creating isolated cinematic experiences for one person in symbolic locations is partly a way to allow for fully contagious festival screenings, but also an attempt to process how the pandemic has changed the audience’s focus towards cinema, according to the festival’s leadership.
“At Pater Noster, it’s about the total isolation that so many people in the world experienced during the year. It echoes fate,” says the festival’s artistic director, Jonas Holmberg, in a press release.
The Gothenburg Film Festival runs from January 29 to February 8. The program will be presented on January 12.
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