Vertical Screen Commissions imitate the 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.

Current Vertical Screen Commission

I’ve been trying to reach you

by Anna Chapman Parker and Lyndsay Mann

3:52 min, HD, silent

UK, 2025

5 July – 30 August 2025

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.

More information is available here: https://bfmaf.org/news/vertical-screen-commission-ive-been-trying-to-reach-you/