1000 Journals (2008)

Synopsis: A shared obsession links thousands of people around the world to the 1000 Journals Project. What began as a handcrafted "message in a bottle" is now a burgeoning global online and offline community... A shared obsession links thousands of people around the world to the 1000 Journals Project. What began as a handcrafted "message in a bottle" is now a burgeoning global online and offline community that represents an astonishing cross-section of characters and cultures.

It all started with 1000 blank books, released into the world in the summer of 2000 by Someguy, a San Francisco artist. Someguy's instructions, stamped inside each journal, are simple: "This is an experiment and you are part of it. Add anything you like, then pass it on."

Some people found a journal, or got it from a friend or stranger. Some wrote in them, others doodled, pasted in photographs, or added artworks. Some kept them. Some passed them on. Australia, Canada, Denmark, Croatia, Singapore… Scans of journal pages are uploaded to the project's website, where thousands of people have signed up to receive one. There are no rules, and no one monitors these journals and their movements. And yet, they are connecting people worldwide, provoking and inspiring them.

In September 2003, one of the 1000, number 526, returned to Someguy, filled. What happened to the other 999? This film tells their stories. 1000 Journals shares their worldwide journeys across borders and barriers of personal, political, societal, and cultural nature, and chronicles the self-governed collaboration of thousands of random people who have added to this global "message in a bottle."

Shot on all the continents the journals themselves have traveled, this film reveals the beauty and power of the filled pages, interwoven with delicate portraits of people whose lives they touched. --© Official Site [More]

Director: Andrea Kreuzhage

Director: Andrea Kreuzhage