This very personal film was born out of necessity. With no funding for a new project, the director decided on the spur of the moment to set up his camera in his own home. This restriction created an open space in which worlds collide, perspectives shift and new relationships emerge. Neighbours, tradesmen, a homeless woman, a Muslim gardener - they all enter the filmmaker's house to eat, talk, pray and discuss. Isaacs observes, directs and questions himself, his role as host and the boundaries between film and reality. A multi-layered work about intimacy, control and trusting the moment.
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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.
