Lost Connections is a new short film that offers a poetic response to the experience of the Coronavirus pandemic. Made possible through a unique UK-wide collaboration of national and regional publicly-funded film archives, Lost Connections draws on a century of archive footage that and invites reflections on loss, loneliness, isolation, and expressions of desire, optimism, hope, and renewal. The film won the 2022 Focal International Award for Best Use of Footage in a Short Film Production....

Lost Connections is a new short film that offers a poetic response to the experience of the Coronavirus pandemic. Made possible through a unique UK-wide collaboration of national and regional publicly-funded film archives, Lost Connections draws on a century of archive footage that and invites reflections on loss, loneliness, isolation, and expressions of desire, optimism, hope, and renewal. The film won the 2022 Focal International Award for Best Use of Footage in a Short Film Production. The past 18 months have given everyone pause to stop and reflect, to question and re-assess what is most important to us. The film creates multiple associations with histories and memories, our common experiences of loss, loneliness and isolation, and the need for the human touch. It is not a film about the pandemic, it is a film about recovery, hope and renewal, the human character, sadness and joy, what we really value, and our gradual reconnection with each other, our communities, and the world around us. End titles: A film collaboration drawing from national and regional film archive collections across the UK to mark an extraordinary period in all our lives. From the collections of East Anglian Film Archive London’s Screen Archives Media Archive for Central England at University of Lincoln National Library of Scotland National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive North East Film Archive Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University Screen Archive South East SWFTA Collection, The Box Plymouth Wessex Film & Sound Archive Yorkshire Film Archive Produced by Yorkshire Film Archive Written and Edited by Andy Burns Written and Narrated by Hussina Raja Executive Producers Graham Relton, Sue Howard, Frank Gray Commissioned by Film Hub North on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network Footage from the following films has been included: NEFA_9096 Meanwhile Back in Sunderland NEFA_10888 Road to Blaydon NEFA_13254 North NEFA_13489 Sunderland Echo: It’s Your Evening NEFA_15647 Nice One Sunderland NEFA_20660 End of the Pier NEFA_20885 Middlesbrough Film NEFA_21216 Flowers for Peter NEFA_22415 Sunshine on My Shoulders NEFA_22518 Tender Mercies NEFA_22717 Love at Percy Hedley YFA_16 Hull Victory Celebrations YFA_1142 A Scrap of Paper YFA_1220 A Question of Choice, St. George’s House YFA_3162 Flowers for Leeds YFA_3935 The Spider’s Web YFA_5455 A Light Through the Clouds YFA_5684 Restless Sunday YFA_5685 Once Upon a Sunday YFA_5835 Task Force Chapeltown YFA_5837 Chapeltown: One Year On YFA_5858 On the Manor: Manor People