Life in a Day (2011)

Directed by

Kevin Macdonald

Genre

documentary film, drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 251 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is made from thousands of video clips submitted by people around the world, all recorded on a single day in July 2010. It shows ordinary moments from many different lives, from morning routines to unexpected events. The result is a collective portrait of a single day on Earth.

observationalintimateglobally expansivemundanepoignantgroundedslice-of-lifehumanistic

What happens

Life in a Day is a crowd-sourced documentary film comprising an arranged series of video clips selected from 80,000 clips submitted to the YouTube video sharing website, the clips showing respective occurrences from around the world on a single day, 24 July 2010. The film is 94 minutes 53 seconds long and includes scenes selected from 4,500 hours of footage in 80,000 submissions from 192 nations. The completed film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on 27 January 2011 and the premiere was streamed live on YouTube. On 31 October 2011, YouTube announced that Life in a Day would be available for viewing on its website free of charge, and on DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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