Peter In Radioland

SPECIAL MENTION SHORT FILM AWARD

At 63 and on sick leave, Peter, the filmmaker’s father, spends long days alone, contemplating his past, withdrawing into his memories. His is a resolutely analogue world, peopled with Super8 images, sounds from old transistor radios, dial phones, inaudible walky-talkies, the clicking of a mechanical type-writer—all objects that remind him of his youth and childhood. Digital technology scares him. He can’t link it to anything. What kind of a world is made up of 1s and 0s? He is even less tolerant of how the digital world induces dependence on others. The analogue world equates to freedom, a freedom that leaves him more and more isolated. . . (Yann Lardeau)