Talk to Me (2006 film)

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Talk to Me
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Film poster
Directed byMark Craig
Written byMark Craig
Produced byMark Craig
StarringMark Craig
Cinematography Ken Morse
Edited byDan Haythorn
Music by Steve Alexander
Production
company
Stopwatch Productions
Distributed by British Documentary Film Foundation
Release date
  • August 2006 (2006-08)(Edinburgh) [1]
Running time
23 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Talk To Me is a 2006 British documentary film directed by and starring Mark Craig. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] The film won 'Best Short Doc' upon its debut at the Boulder International Film Festival in 2006. [9]

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Synopsis

The film follows Craig's relationships over a twenty-year period using answer phone tapes and photos of the time. The recordings were originally kept as 'a sort of diary' though this eventually developed into the film. [2] [3] [4] [9]

Release

The film screened in 2007 at the Ashland Independent Film Festival in Ashland, Oregon, [10] and in June that year at the National Media Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, [2] It was previously available on More 4, 4od and DVD with some of the original soundtracks removed due to copyright reasons. This version is available on archive.org.

Reception

The Daily Telegraph wrote that Mark Craig's use of onscreen photographs of his various callers from over a 20+ year period was a "brilliant collage" and "so inventive that it aspired to the condition of drama". They lauded the film, writing "The cleverness of this work was that it gave a complete portrait not only of the callers, but also of Mark [the filmmaker]", and that it "conveyed a real sense of non-communication and of life's dramas." [11] [12]

Awards and nominations

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  2. 1 2 3 staff (22 May 2007). "At the tone, please leave a message for posterity". The Guardian . Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  3. 1 2 Habe-Evans, Mito (18 November 2010). "Art From Analog: 20 Years Of Voice Mail Makes A Movie". NPR . Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  4. 1 2 Craig, Mark. "Director's statement". Channel 4 . Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  5. ↑ Stiernberg, Bonnie (18 November 2010). "Awesome of the Day: 20 Years of Voicemails Turned into a Documentary". Paste Magazine . Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  6. ↑ Mahoney, Elisabeth (15 February 2011). "Radio review: The Call - "Dominic Arkwright's conversation with Mark Craig about his 20-year collection of answerphone messages was brilliant radio"". The Guardian . Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  7. 1 2 3 staff. "Talk to Me". BRITDOC Foundation. Archived from the original on 11 December 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  8. ↑ "Talk to Me" . Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  9. 1 2 3 Deming, Mark. "Talk To Me (2006)". AllRovi. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  10. ↑ staff. "Talk To Me". Ashland Independent Film Festival.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  11. ↑ Pile, Stephen (15 December 2007). "Review of the year: Television". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  12. ↑ Pile, Stephen (16 December 2007). "In praise of a simple, shining bloke". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  13. ↑ "High Hopes". De Montfort University . Retrieved 8 January 2012.
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