Two Films About Loneliness
Directed by
2014
A split-screen separates the worlds of Jonathan Smallman, who is recording his online dating-profile, while next door, Phillip Button, the internet chef and hamster, is noisily recording his new cooking video. Both characters have turned to technology in their search for companionship and acceptance and it’s not entirely working. Until something unexpected happens… (Christopher Ealing und Will Bishop-Stephens)
The film tells the parallel stories of two characters who seek contact each in their own way by means of the Internet and surprisingly find one another. Per split screen and in stop-motion the two filmmakers succeed in an easily and humorously told story about the importance of relationships in a media-dominated society.