How are you? What's on your mind? What did you dream about last night? Conversations begin with questions like these. The interviewer stands with a camera in a lift in a block of flats in East London. In the confined space of the lift, the initially hesitant, often irritated reactions of the residents give way, over the course of several days, to conversations of great openness. Some talk about their loneliness, others about lost loved ones, migration, religion, dreams or missing memories. The inevitable closeness and the foreseeable brevity of the encounter turn the lift into a confessional for everyday life.
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Marc Isaacs
It is the supposedly insignificant people who interest Marc Isaacs, those on the fringes of society, on the margins. Not as exotic stereotypes or bizarre illustrations, but as seismographs of the present and its upheavals. In his films, Isaacs shows the casual everyday life of his protagonists. He lets them speak for themselves, and we observe how they deal - just as casually - with the great issues of the present: identity, hope, fear. Marc Isaacs is a radical humanist.
Isaacs came to documentary film in 1995 as an assistant producer at the BBC. He went on to work as an assistant to Pawel Pawlikowski. He made his first film, LIFT, in 2001.
