Sat Oct 21, 12:00 PM
128 minutes
Unclassified 15+
This program presents two thematically linked films in which filmmakers try to come to terms with their fathers, and with the possibilities for documentary to access the past.
Two films about coming to terms with fathers and with the past. In The Hidden Spring, Radio National’s Jason Di Rosso contemplates the distance from Sydney where he lives, to Perth where his father is dying. His father is an architect and a convert to spiritualism – embodying the contradictions with which the film is wrestling. If the most profound things are the most abstract, what do you point your camera at? In Scenes with My Father, Biserka Šuran questions her father about their emigration from Croatia, using structured interviews to get at emotions that have been deeply buried.