Film festival invites fans to watch movies alone on remote Swedish island
The chosen fan will be transported by boat to the Swedish island of Pater Noster. Once there, they'll be set up in the former lighthouse keeper's house and spend a week from January 30 to February 6 watching Göteborg's offerings. They won't be allowed a cellphone, a laptop, a book or any other distractions.
In a move which takes social distancing amid the pandemic to a next level, Sweden's Göteborg Film Festival is inviting one cinema fan to spend a week from January 30 to February 6 to watch its line-up of 60 titles on an isolated remote island. The whole experience is dubbed "The Isolated Cinema".
The chosen fan will be transported by boat to the Swedish island of Pater Noster -- which Göteborg Film Festival artistic director Jonas Holmberg calls "one of the most beautiful and dramatic places I know", CNN reported.
The viewer will then be set up in the former lighthouse keeper's house. They won't be allowed a cellphone, a laptop, a book or any other distractions. During the stay, the solitary film enthusiast will be able to talk about his/her experience in a video diary that the outside world can follow.
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 January 17, and the film festival said it's already had an influx of applicants from across the world.
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.
