Sing it at the bus stop, shout it at parties, dream it aloud… pass on Strangers.Now any way you like, don’t wait!
Dear friend or visitor,
If you haven’t seen it yet on Facebook and LinkedIn, here’s a trailer for the growing short film series I lovingly crafted with my own little hands and a dash of creativity—all ready for you to share and show support.
Life is a wonder people don’t seem to wonder much about. Or do they? Do you? (Let me know!) As for me, I keep asking myself what I’m doing here, in life, or in any given place. I feel like a stranger everywhere. Until one day I grabbed my camera and started asking passersby what their answers were. That’s how Strangers.Now started.
Watch the full 3-min documentary series:
➤ www.strangers.now
➤ More auto-translated languages via YouTube: www.strangers.tube—desktop only.
“Everywhere, in the street, on the train, I feel like asking strangers who they are, what they’re doing, what’s on their minds. I’m curious about the lives I come across…”
— Simone Signoret, the renowned French actress, in a TV interview—quoted from memory. (Signoret actually questioned strangers in a department store, filmed in the 1960s for the documentary William Klein aux grands magasins.)
All unique, all strangers
Our identities are shaped by not being identical—just as strangers are. We can tell one another apart thanks to our differences, to our very uniqueness.
Strangers? Now!
Don’t you think it’s intriguing? Don’t you want to ask strangers how different they are? What they’re thinking? What they’re doing there?
Strangers.Now takes to the streets to ask, listen and connect. In real life. With real strangers.
Do you know how good it feels?
That you could do it too?
Speak with strangers. Now.
(Need an icebreaker? Just drop Strangers.Now. Quite fitting, isn’t it?)
Meanwhile, meet on your screen:
Namratha, who’s always trying to climb a rainbow (English)
David, who finally found a place he belongs to: the football stadium (Italian)
Guoda and Karolis, who discuss hangovers and the meaning of life (Lithuanian)
Rolandas, who feels like a kind hedgehog (Lithuanian)
Nicolas, who narrates the drama he lived through in Ukraine (in French)
Kunthea, who can’t find words to share her appalling fate under the Khmer Rouge (French and Khmer)
And other strangers open to sharing their perspectives with you.
More to come!
Films and texts © Eric Vander Borght – www.ericvan.com – linktr.ee/vanderbo
I’m available for film and photography projects.
(Independent filmmaking, real-life storytelling, and more).
Let’s get in touch
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➤ If you think Strangers.Now is worthy of attention, please share, like, and engage widely! These films are unlisted on YouTube; only your sharing, and that of your friends, can bring them to life. They need your creative involvement—preferably in person: word of mouth is the best way to support a project that is entirely self-funded.
Note: The subjects of the films usually speak their mother tongue or a language they feel comfortable with: we believe that embracing diverse forms of expression makes the world a richer place. On YouTube, English subtitles can be activated via the relevant icon, and automatic translation into many languages (desktop only) is accessible through the gear icon in the bottom-right corner of the videos (see below).
The YouTube playlist: www.strangers.tube
Music by Jérôme Chauvel and Liécio Rodriguez, sourced from Pixabay and used under a royalty-free license.
Films, Human-Made | Human stories through independent filmmaking | www.ericvan.com
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