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The Göteborg Film Festival, having previously given attendees the opportunity to watch a movie from inside a purpose-built coffin, have now decided to one-up their past work by letting one viewer enjoy this year’s festival in the only way that makes sense during a pandemic: Completely by themselves in a North Sea lighthouse that looks like it’s about to be reclaimed by the deep at any moment.
Because of the pandemic, 2021 s Göteborg Film Festival is going mostly digital, but its organizers have still decided to create The Isolated Cinema in order to allow “one solitary film enthusiast” to “experience total isolation from the outside world” for seven days of movies. The whole thing will be hosted in a converted lighthouse “on the island of Pater Noster,” which is touted as “inaccessibly located at the very edge of the archipelago in one of Sweden’s most barren, windswept locations.”