Leave a message for your heartbreak, lost, forgotten, or imagined.
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?
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.
Lost Love Hotline phone booth installation at Phoenix, Leicester, Nov 2025.
Lost Love Hotline was created to accompany Too Much: Melodrama on Film, a UK-wide season of cinema supported by the BFI that celebrates films that champion emotional intensity over ‘good taste’.
Made in collaboration with Broadway. Creative technology by Ben Neal. Phonebooth design and build by Fenn Woodwork. Design by Waste Studio.
With thanks to funding from BFI Film Audience Network.
Supported by Broadway’s Near Now using public funding by Arts Council England.
Lost Love Hotline launch at Broadway, 23/10/25. Photo credit: Tom Platinum Morley.
Leave a message
See current and upcoming venues to visit the Lost Love Hotline phone booth at lostlovehotline.com. Call to leave a message on +44 (0)800 404 5630, or write to hello@lostlovehotline.com.
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Previous tour venues include:
2026
- SXSW, Austin, Texas (USA), 15–17 March
2025
- Phoenix, Exeter 8–19 Oct
- Broadway, Nottingham 21 Oct–2 Nov
- Watershed, Bristol 4–13 Nov
- HOME, Manchester 5–23 Nov
- Phoenix, Leicester 25 Nov–4 Dec
- Showroom, Sheffield 6–15 Dec
- BFI Southbank, London 17–31 Dec
About Light After Dark
Light After Dark is a film festival dedicated to immersive experiences in cinema. Pairing films with performance, music, technology, and art, Light After Dark will give audiences a deep, intimate, and collective encounter with film.