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