form y separately published work icon The Silences single work   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 The Silences
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'A personal essay documentary about the tangled bonds, secret histories and unspoken traumas of family life, that stretches from New Zealand to the Australian suburbs. It is an exploration of early childhood and the “silences” of the past that resonate in the present. It draws upon a wealth of photographs, letters, oral histories, documentary footage and clips from the filmmaker’s previous work. It unfolds a mother’s story of lost opportunities, lost love and grief; a father’s story of work, mental illness and war; and a daughter’s story of trying to piece together a more complex picture of the confusing ties of love, loss and kinship between a mother and daughter.'

Source: As If Productions.

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Works about this Work

Action and Reflection : Autobiography, Film History and the Australian Independent Documentary Adrian Danks , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , July no. 99 2021;
Gender Matters : Gender Policy and the Rewriting of the Mother–Daughter Narrative in Contemporary Australian Women’s Filmmaking Jodi Brooks , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Screen in the 2000s 2018; (p. 143-164)
Examines three recent Australian films by women film-makers, arguing that they reimagine or reinvent Australian cinema 'through the ways in which they rethink linear time and generational succession' (p.144).
Gender Matters : Gender Policy and the Rewriting of the Mother–Daughter Narrative in Contemporary Australian Women’s Filmmaking Jodi Brooks , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Screen in the 2000s 2018; (p. 143-164)
Examines three recent Australian films by women film-makers, arguing that they reimagine or reinvent Australian cinema 'through the ways in which they rethink linear time and generational succession' (p.144).
Action and Reflection : Autobiography, Film History and the Australian Independent Documentary Adrian Danks , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , July no. 99 2021;

Awards

2016 joint winner AWGIE Awards Documentary Award With Baxter and Me (Gillian Leahy).
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