CONVERSATIONS WITH MY MOTHER

by Dirk DE BRUYN
1990 / 16mm / color / sound / 1S / 102' 27

An intense and disturbing series of encounters between the filmmaker and his mother reliving the traumatic years of his childhood and adolescence. Following the migration of the family to Australia from Holland in the difficult postwar years they had to grapple with problems of housing, social injustice and adjustment made more difficult by the father's mental illness. For the filmmaker 'the sentiment had to be uncompromisingly true' although he became aware that 'all film is fiction'.

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distribution format Digital file on server (FHD)
screen 16/9 (single screen)
speed 25 fps
sound sound
original language Dutch & English
translation English (Embedded subtitles)
rental fee 300,00 €