PG-13Synopsis
Life in a Day (2011) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. On July 24, 2010, people in countries across the globe uploaded over 80,000 video clips to YouTube in answer to a single prompt: film your day. Editor-director Kevin Macdonald and producer Ridley Scott shaped the footage into a 95-minute film.
Morning coffee in Seoul, a wedding in Africa, a livestock market in the Middle East, a father putting a daughter to bed — all the same Tuesday. The structure follows the clock: dawn, midday, night. What fills that frame is the full range of what a day can hold: births and funerals, boredom and terror, small kindnesses and visible loneliness.
No narrator, no thesis, no conclusion. That restraint is the point. Watching it, you get the feeling that the planet is enormous and that everyone on it is, against all odds, managing somehow. Stream Life in a Day (2011) online on iFILM.
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