Available on Vimeo-on-Demand, 14th February 2020. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/murmurs Hana is an ASMR artist, creating intimate videos for millions of online followers – and she hasn’t left her house for 18 months. Ed is a remote security image analyst, and Hana’s first online hook-up. When Ed arrives at Hana’s home, they begin to nurture an awkward togetherness. But for these lonely weirdos, building trust might take more than endless days of cooking and fucking. The VoD version includes the full 72-minute split screen feature film and a bonus shorter, single-screen version for re-watching on smaller devices. Graeme Cole's debut feature film was made under the mentorship of Béla Tarr at the legendary filmmaker's shortlived radical film school, film.factory, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Mr Cole's regular collaborators Elma Selman (Epizoda ?, Panic & Disgust in the 2015th Year) and Stewart Lockwood (It's Nick's Birthday, UNIVERSAL EAR, and John Cameron Mitchell’s “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”) meet on screen for the first time - quite literally, as the moment the characters meet is the also the first time the actors had ever laid eyes on each other.

The feature-length film.factory project Murmurs is now available to rent or buy via Vimeo On Demand.

The film was created by a small band of film.factory students in Sarajevo in January 2015. It is described as a paranoid rom-com with tingles - referring to the ASMR backdrop to the story. Murmurs was edited and submitted to festivals thanks to a successful Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. The split-screen chamberplay showed across two screens as part of Mr Cole’s solo exhibition at Slow Film Festival in Mayfield in 2018, but otherwise was cruelly overlooked by festival programmers.

Murmurs
Written & Directed by Graeme Cole

Video | 72'42" | BiH/UK | 2020

Cast

Elma Selman, Stewart Lockwood

Synopsis

Hana is an ASMR artist, creating intimate videos for millions of online followers – and she hasn’t left her house for 18 months. Ed is a remote security image analyst, and Hana’s first online hook-up. When Ed arrives at Hana’s home, they begin to nurture an awkward togetherness. But for these lonely weirdos, building trust might take more than endless days of cooking and fucking.