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People In Order (2006)

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How can you arrange a collection of short interactions with strangers in order to reveal something meaningful about life? In 2006, the UK’s Channel 4 commissioned a series of short films from filmmakers Lenka Clayton and James Price, and they wanted to do just that. “We established what scales we’d look at,”β€”they chose the universal themes of Age, Birth, Love, Homeβ€””and then chose how each film would be framed. Then it was a case of getting in a campervan and driving round Britain, filming as many people as we could over 4 weeks in February…”

Above, People In Order: 1. Age, a person of every age from one to 100 years in ascending order. Below, People In Order: 3. Love, 48 couples arranged by length of relationship in descending order:

Next: 100 people answer the question, β€œHow old are you?” in Dutch (2012) and a few short films by Everynone, including Yawns and Parabolas (etc).

Plus, previously from Clayton: The Distance I Can Be From My Son.

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