Film4 launches interactive online experience for Dreams of a Life

25 November 2011

Picture by Lottie Davies.

 

Film4 has commissioned a unique and innovative multiplatform experience to support the release of Carol Morley's feature film Dreams of a Life.  

Dreams of a Life, which is co-produced and co-financed by Film4, movingly pieces together the true story of 38-year-old Joyce Vincent, whose skeleton was discovered in her bedsit three years after she had died.  The accompanying digital commission, www.dreamsofyourlife.com, has been developed by interactive agency Hide&Seek, as a thought-provoking and immersive experience which engages users in the themes explored by the film.

Award-winning writer A.L. Kennedy has crafted the absorbing and sometimes unnerving narrative, which prompts responses to questions on society, friendship, love and loneliness.  This is played against the backdrop of beautiful and haunting time-lapse imagery, created by photographer Lottie Davies.

The launch of www.dreamsofyourlife.com will also be supported by a mobile touring installation, allowing audiences to interact with the experience on iPads at selected venues in the cities where the film is playing.

www.dreamsofyourlife.com, commissioned by Hilary Perkins, Channel 4's Multiplatform Commissioning Editor for Drama and Film, launches on 1st December 2011.  Dreams of a Life is released in selected cinemas on 16th December.

 

The Film

Dreams of a Life, directed by Carol Morley

Released in cinemas on 16th December by Dogwoof

Nobody noticed when 38-year-old Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall in North London in 2003.  When her skeleton was discovered three years later, her heating and her television were still on.  Newspaper reports offered few details of Joyce's life - not even a photograph.  Who was Joyce Vincent?  And how could this happen to someone in our day and age - the so-called age of communication?  Dreams of a Life is Carol Morley's quest to discover who Joyce was and how she came to be so forgotten.

Discover the Touring Installation from 12th December (more venues tbc):

Manchester Cornerhouse; Sheffield Showroom; Stratford Picturehouse