The Heartbreak Archive

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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Brought to you by Light After Dark with the support of Broadway Cinema and Near Now, in collaboration with Waste Studio.

This installation is part of Too Much: Melodrama on Film, a UK-wide season that celebrates films that champion emotional intensity over ‘good taste’.

Exeter Phoenix presents a selection of films that are united by motherhood; Maternal melodramas.

The season is supported by the BFI through National Lottery funding.

Venue: Exeter Phoenix