For older lonely people, talk back radio is both a solace and a connection to the wilder world. This luminous documentary concentrates on people’s faces and the living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms in which they live to create a blessedly humane mediation on age, loneliness and technology.
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In ACMI's collection
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ACMI Identifier
B1001892
Subject categories
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Old age
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Old age
Holdings
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded