In February 1972 a group of politicians in Sweden gathered to define a new idea for the future. Motivated by a strong urgency in challenging traditional social structures, they defined a new goal. The vision was to create ”A Society of Autonomous Individuals”. A manifest was written in which it was demanded that "no citizen should be depending on the other". Year 2013, forty years later, Scandinavia is the loneliest region in the world. Sweden is the country with the highest amount of people dying alone and tops the chart of single households with 47% living alone. Norway is second with 42% and Denmark third with 41%. LOST IN PERFECTION (working title) will try to penetrate the cracks of Scandinavian perfection and dig into the dysfunctional sides of this on the surface perfect society.
SOLO is a TRANSMEDIA digital interactive platform to be launched during the making of the documentary film LOST IN PERFECTION by Erik Gandini, to be released in 2015. The aim is to give the audience the chance to gather on a digital platform and participate in a discussion about the pros and the cons of our modern solo lifestyle. We want to make the filmmaking interact with the audience and ask them for help with questions such as: How do we live our life? Is freedom from each other meaningful? Do we want to die alone? Are we happy?
SOLO will be a website and later an application that will gather an audience curious to participate in our research, questioning and potentially proposing solutions to the question of loneliness in the western world.
CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS:
SVT, SFI, Film I Väst, YLE, DR, DFI, NRK, NFI, MEDIA, Zentropa & Indie Film (co-prod. partners for the documentary film).
FASAD FILMINDUSTRI is a production company based in Stockholm. Its productions have been awarded at some of the top film festivals around the world. The company’s filmography includes: Blondie (2012), Avalon (2011), The Ape (2009), Burrowing (2009), among others. Current Fasad productions, extend to a number of productions including Erik Gandini's Lost in Perfection, Fredrik Wenzel and Jesper Kurlandsky’s Signs of an Open Eye, Marcus Lindeen’s The Acali Experiment, Anna Padilla’s Bara fem minuter till, Angela Bravo’s An Imaginary Country and two yet-untitled Jesper Ganslandt films.
Erik Gandini
Director and Producer
Juan Pablo Libossart
Producer
Kristian Mosvold
Transmedia Producer