Watch Me Disappear
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Friday 22 August 2008
As part of Channel 4's Generation Next season, documentary new talent strand First Cut continues with Lucy Cohen's extraordinary directorial debut. Each year in Britain around 2,500 people are buried alone. No one claims them, and no one attends their funerals. Driven by a desire to find out more about these lonely individuals, this film pieces together two peoples' lives, and asks how - in crowded, hectic, connected, modern Britain - it is possible for anyone to simply slip through the cracks and disappear.
Just wanted to say this was moving an fascinating. What happens when people just stop? What becomes of their remains? I'll admit to having been haunted by these questions over the last few years, and Lucy Cohen's done good work here, in enriching our lives and commemorating the lives of others. You really have to admire her for it too.
22 Aug 08 at 10:17 pm
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