Peter In Radioland

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)