Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors (1988)

An elegy on the death of the film-maker's mother. Fragments from dreams, nightmares and memories combine with natural sound and landscape in this short film poem "a myriad of instances in transit" M. Maziere, Independent Media. Through various texts and spoken diaries oblique reference is made to the persistence of the imagination; the dark, wild wood of Dante's Inferno with Paolo and Francescs buffeted on an infernal breeze, whilst an iconoclasic re-depiction of a Renaissance painting of the deposition by Raphael, describes an age in which the reality of death and grief were less hidden.

Director: Anna Thew

Casts

	Mary Rose as Mother
	Tania Díez as Daughter
	Anna Thew as Corpse
	Rachel Thew as Young Woman
	Harland Miller as Paolo
	Yvonne Little as Francesca
	Luc Borie as Young Man
	Steve Farrer as Deposition
	Richard Heslop as Deposition
	Derek Jarman as Deposition
	Martin Lugg as Deposition
	Helga Byrne as Magdalen
	Fraser Jacobs as Mourner
	Monica Molner as Mourner

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