Three roommates, one toilet paper shortage, infinite wine. Pandemic cinema shot on crusty Hi8 hits different.
Three roommates, one toilet paper shortage, infinite wine. Pandemic cinema shot on crusty Hi8 hits different.
A short film of the first weeks of strict national lockdown, filmed in Barcelona on a classic home video camera Hi8. Narrates the story of three women who share a flat and who create a microworld not only to survive the global pandemic but also to survive themselves.
Cinematography
Hi8 grain turns your apartment into haunted memory
Direction
Directors star in their own claustrophobic experiment
Editing
News footage collides with private ritual seamlessly
Director
Vanessa Roca
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Barcelona's first lockdown, capturing a specific European experience of 7pm balcony applause that went viral globally.
The Hi8 format wasn't just aesthetic choice—the directors literally found old family tapes to use when shops closed.
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