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I’ve been trying to reach you

5 July – 31 August 2025
Free Entry

Run Time

4 mins

Vertical Screen Commissions imitate pervasive everyday formats, from punchy smartphone content to flashy shop window displays.

Publicly exhibited in the window of the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival venue on 22 Bridge Street, the short videos can be viewed from street-level 24 hours a day.

I’ve been trying to reach you

Made for a giant proxy phonescreen in a shop window, I’ve been trying to reach you asks what it means to observe the street within the glassy space of a messaging app. In a context of fleeting and fragmentary attention, the film invites an intimate cinematic encounter conducted through reflected glances and pinged text. A hybrid text exchange sampled from AI-generated image descriptions, performance scripts and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando plays with the poetics of passing by, offering moments that slip between reflection and interruption, dialogue and disconnect.

Directors

Countries

Year

2025

Duration

4 mins

Premiere

Dialogue Language

English

Primary Contact

Lyndsay Mann

Artist

Anna Chapman Parker Lyndsay Mann

Editor

Lyndsay Mann