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Festival invites fans to watch movies alone on island
    2021-01-12  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

TAKING social distancing to a whole new level, Sweden’s Goteborg Film Festival is inviting one cinema fan to spend seven days on an isolated lighthouse island, with only movies and the sea for company.

Like many recent film festivals, Goteborg festival is going digital in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but organizers decided to offer one festival goer a totally different experience, dubbed “The Isolated Cinema.”

The chosen fan will be transported by boat to the Swedish island of Pater Noster — which Goteborg Film Festival artistic director Jonas Holmberg calls “one of the most beautiful and dramatic places I know.”

Once there, they’ll be set up in the former lighthouse keeper’s house and spend a week from Jan. 30 to Feb. 6 watching Goteborg’s offerings. They won’t be allowed a cellphone, a laptop, a book or any other distractions.

Artistic director Jonas Holmberg tells CNN Travel the inspiration for the idea was how people have turned to films for comfort during the pandemic.

“We are interested in how the audience’s relationship to films changes under those circumstances, and wanted to explore this relationship by taking it to the extreme — isolating one person on a small rock in the sea for one week with films as the only company,” says Holmberg.

If you’re interested, you can apply online, all you have to do is email and say who you are and why you’re interested in the Isolated Cinema. The deadline is Jan. 17, and the film festival said it’s already had an influx of applicants from across the world.

Pater Noster is actually the name of the cast iron, bright red lighthouse that’s been a feature of the tiny island of Hamneskar since 1868. Holmberg says a lighthouse keeper lived on the island in the cottage until the 1960s when the beacon was automated.

Hamneskar is situated off the coast of Marstrand in western Sweden. Apparently the name “Pater Noster” (meaning “Our Father” in Latin) came from sailors fearful of the rough seas surrounding the island, who’d utter the Lord’s Prayer under their breath as they navigated these waters.

The lighthouse was deactivated in recent years, and the lighthouse cabin was recently renovated by design agency Stylt, so the chosen film fan will be able to relax in comfort and style. The living room will be set up as a screening room for movie-watching, while food will be provided for self catering.

“The stay at the island will be perfectly safe. The person will have a soft bed and nice food. This is not about surviving,” says Holmberg.

For safety reasons, the visitor won’t be totally alone, there will be another person staying on the island but they’ll keep their distance.

The festival is accepting applications from across the world, but naturally will need to take into consideration COVID-related lockdowns and travel regulations.

(SD-Agencies)

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