Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
McAfee Secure sites help keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams
Chris Higgins
Required Viewing: People in Order
by Chris Higgins - January 14, 2008 - 9:01 AM

This week brings us a new occasional feature: Required Viewing. We’ll highlight videos — viral and otherwise — that are particularly flossy. Please feel free to suggest videos if we miss something good!

In today’s inaugural installment, we’ll look at two videos from filmmakers Lenka Clayton and James Price. They’re part of a series of four shorts called People in Order. From the IMDB page:

A series of 4 short films that arrange 471 people from around Britain according to 4 scales.

1. Age. A person of every age between 1 and 100.

2. Birth. 34 women from 4 to 41 weeks pregnant.

3. Love. 48 couples arranged by length of their relationship (in descending order).

4. Home. 73 households in descending order of yearly income (£400,000 – £3,240)

We came across online versions of the first and third films mentioned above. First, People in Order (Age, Ascending):

After the jump, see the film on Love.

People in Order (Length of Relationship, Descending):

More from Lenka Clayton and James Price: Conversation.

« Previous Post   -   Next Post »
Comments (11)

  1. I wish you had links to the other two! I can’t find them and I’d love to see them.

    posted by Kelly J on 1-14-2008 at 9:54 am

  2. The last twenty or so people on the age order made me tear up. I got a kick out of how tickled they got banging the drum.

    posted by jenny on 1-14-2008 at 10:04 am

  3. Those are Awesome!

    posted by Tmoore on 1-14-2008 at 10:58 am

  4. All I can say is, WOW.
    Great films. I’m with Kelly J, now I’m dying to see the other two!
    The comfort level in the long term relationships and the giddy nervousness in the shorter ones….they are equally charming.
    Loved this post, thank you. :D

    posted by mrs.djs on 1-14-2008 at 11:19 am

  5. It was kind of a shocker to see how quickly people started to look “old” once they hit their 30s. I’ll just tell myself it’s because they’re British. The drum-banging drove me nuts. I found it very distracting.

    posted by Nat X on 1-14-2008 at 4:24 pm

  6. I generally don’t like going with the crowd, but I liked these films (despite the fact that I’m in my 40s and divorced.)

    posted by Bassman on 1-14-2008 at 5:40 pm

  7. I too have been trying to locate the other two videos but without any luck.

    posted by Cassandra on 1-14-2008 at 7:24 pm

  8. what a neat idea. i had to wait all day at work until i got home to see the two videos. i also wish there were all four. i love how up to age 6 we’re giddy to bang a drum, and then after age 80 we’re giddy to bang a drum again. :)

    posted by tami on 1-14-2008 at 10:07 pm

  9. Neither video is now available.

    posted by Maggie on 10-21-2009 at 7:14 pm

  10. Home : http://vimeo.com/3909349

    Birth : http://vimeo.com/3909051

    posted by Perry on 10-22-2009 at 12:17 am

  11. Maggie – both videos work for me. Perhaps current.tv is blocked by your ISP or some such?

    posted by Chris Higgins on 10-22-2009 at 1:46 am

Comment

commenting policy