sophie calle (programa para o corpo)

A man and a woman take turns to tell stories of ordinary and not-so-ordinary heart-break. For each story a single iconic image slides across the screen behind them. A red telephone on a hotel bed. A subway station. A photograph. A green Mercedes.

The woman narrates repeatedly the story of a break up; the suffering at the end of an affair. Each time she remembers it differently, adding and subtracting details, finding new ways to both remember and forget what happened. In contrast to this obsessive repetition the man tells many different stories collected from the lives of other people; each story a snapshot narrative of sorrow, big or small, that takes its place in a growing catalogue of suffering, break-ups, humiliations, deaths, illnesses and love letters that never arrive.