I just watched
Life in a Day, a 90-minute collation of hundreds of video clips from around the world featuring everyday life on 24 July 2010. It's an ambitious idea - there were 80,000 submissions totalling 4,500 hours of footage - but it is brilliantly executed. There is laughter in here, and regret, the sublime and the mundane, love and hate, poverty and wealth, dreams and fears. A glorious tapestry of small moments that builds up to far more than the sum of its parts.
Excitingly, there is an opportunity to contribute to a similar endeavour on a more local scale. You can film your life on this coming Saturday 12 November 2011 and submit it to
Britain in a Day. I want in!
(Meanwhile, if you liked this film, I recommend
What About Me? and
Koyaanisqatsi.)
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