Anna Chapman Parker and Lyndsay Mann, 'I've been trying to reach you' 2025, [4min, HD, silent].
Commissioned by Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival.
Screening 19 July - 30 August 2025 at 22 Bridge St, Berwick Upon Tweed, UK.
Made for a giant proxy phonescreen in a shop window, 'I’ve been trying to reach you' asks what it means to observe the street within the glassy space of a messaging app. In a context of fleeting and fragmentary attention, the film invites an intimate cinematic encounter conducted through reflected glances and pinged text. A hybrid text exchange sampled from AI-generated image descriptions, performance scripts and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando plays with the poetics of passing by, offering moments that slip between reflection and interruption, dialogue and disconnect.
