Lost Love Hotline

Leave a message for your heartbreak… lost, forgotten or imagined.

“Hello Lonelyheart, thank you for calling the Lonelyheart Hotline. After the tone, please leave a message here for a lost love, the current squeeze you have settled for, imagined beau or future heartbreak of your choice. Keep it brief, sincerity is best, but empty sentiments are also encouraged. Goodbye.”

Lost Love Hotline is an audio project that is inspired and informed by cinematic notions of story and longing. Here, you enter a phone booth where strangers leave messages for a lost love: maybe someone or something from their past, something that they’re still aching for, that maybe never existed outside their own dreams.

Each message becomes part of heartbreak archive, a collection of raw confessions, warped truths, spectral yearnings, and unresolved monologues.

A moment brought to you by Light After Dark, a place for immersive encounters with film, with the support of Broadway Cinema and Near Now.

Visit lostlovehotline.com for more information about this project, and other venues on the tour.

This installation is part of the BFI’s UK-wide Too Much: Melodrama on Film season.

Supported by: Too Much & BFI Fan
In partnership with: Near Now, Light After Dark Film Festival, Broadway Cinema
By: Light After Dark Film Festival