Free - just turn up
- Year: 2025
- Type: Arts and Technology
Do you think about a love that’s not yours anymore? Or one you imagined, hurting your own feelings? Or the one you never had the courage to reach out for? Perhaps it keeps you up at night and merges into your daydreams? Do you want to tell it to a stranger and release it? You can with Lost Love Hotline, we will hold them and keep them safe in our archive among other Lonelyhearts.
Love Lost Hotline is a cinematic audio installation that invites participants to leave a message for a lost, imagined, or impossible love. Entering a dreamlike phone booth – they record their confession, becoming part of a growing archive of heartbreak and yearning. Messages range from raw truths to speculative fictions and aspirational musings.
Leave a message for your heartbreak, lost, forgotten, or imagined.
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Lost Love Hotline Opening Party
You're invited to our Cafébar for the Lost Love Hotline opening party on 23 October between 7 - 9 PM.
Join us for a night to remember before it disappears to tour the country.
In our phone booth, we invite you to leave secret messages to someone or something from your past, someone that you’re still aching for, or a mysterious stranger limited to your daydreams.
Tour Dates
Exeter Phoenix : 8 - 19 October
Broadway Cinema: 21 October - 2 November (opening party 23 Oct 7 - 9 pm)
Watershed: 4 - 13 November
HOME Manchester : 5 - 23 November
Phoenix Leicester : 25 November - 4 December
Showroom Sheffield : 6 - 15 December
British Film Institute, London 17 - 31 December
This installation is part of Too Much: Melodrama on Film, a UK-wide season that celebrates films that champion emotional intensity over ‘good taste’.
Broadway Cinema presents a selection of films as part of Too Much: Melodrama on Film indulging in the dramatic with a season of melodrama on screen that charts the history of the much-maligned genre, from the classics of the 1940s and ‘50s to the more recent homages – reverent, tacky or both – that came in the decades that followed.
The season is supported by BFI FAN and Film Hub Midlands through National Lottery funding.
Brought to you by Light After Dark with the support of Broadway Cinema and Near Now, in collaboration with Waste Studio.
