The one woman opera of La Voix Humaine is something I watched my mother perform when I was fourteen. I was mesmerised by its strangeness and beauty as a piece - the way a phone can bring us close to someone and at the same time accentuate the chasm between us; and the way it is terrifically easy, and also soul destroying, to lie to another person on the phone. I was excited when my friend Patrick Kennedy suggested we collaborate on a short film based on Cocteau’s original play. We were lucky eno