A food truck in a car park on the outskirts of a small English town, between a main road and a vegetable patch. Here, over a cup of tea or a bacon sandwich, Marc Isaacs lets passers-by have their say. What begins as an unremarkable everyday situation quickly develops into a revealing conversation about the fears, insecurities and political tensions simmering in British society, but not only there. The interviewees talk about migration and changing national identity. Isaacs gently exposes their insecurities and deep-seated prejudices.
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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.
