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File this headline under Very Desirable: Per those Lord of the Flies wannabe’s over at The Hollywood Reporter, a Swedish film festival – the Goteborg Film Festival – is looking for one brave and hardy cinephile to take the whole concept of social distancing to a new extreme by encamping for seven full days by themselves on an isolated lighthouse island in the roiling North Sea. During that very lonely and wave-swept outing, all said movie geek need do is watch a whole spate of movies. Might ye olde salty purveyor of all things pop culture humbly suggest that Kubrick’s The Shining and Eggers’ The Lighthouse be struck from the playlist?
Wanna apply? You’re in luck, Junior Woodchucks: Simply head on over to the Goteborg website and you can fill out all appropriate paperwork there. If you’re selected for this dubious honor, you will be sent to Pater Noster which the Visitor’s Bureau assures me is a delightfully small and craggy island directly off of Sweden’s (Mmmm, chocolate…) sunny west coast. The real kicker is that if chosen for this experiment that’s right out of either a Scooby-Doo episode or a Stephen King novel, your new digs for the week will be a genuine converted lighthouse which is now a posh luxury hotel. The kind folks from the film festival will get you set up with your very own personal screening room in the lighthouse where you can watch any of the 60 films in 2021’s Goteborg Film Festival. This could be either a reward or a punishment, depending on the quality of this year’s submitted movies; just saying.
The freewheelin’ good-time lovin’ party animal known to friends and family as simply Jonas Holmberg, the Goteborg festival artistic director (say it ten times fast, kiddies), issued a press release regarding this contest: “You have everything you need – great food, great drink, a nice bed – this isn’t about survival. But you can’t bring anything with you: no phone, no computer, not even a book. You can watch the waves and you can watch the films.”
The only criteria for the selected winner is that they must be a fan of film and they have to agree to record a daily blog regarding the experiment. “And,” to give Mr. Holmberg the podium again, “they have to be emotionally and psychologically suited to spend a week in this kind of isolation.”
Get those applications handed in ASAP, Gals and Ghoulies. Tell ‘em Jack Torrance, er, Vents Magazine sent you!
