Behind Closed Doors (1988)
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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.
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Mary RoseMotherTania DíezDaughterRachel ThewYoung WomanHarland MillerPaoloYvonne LittleFrancescaLuc BorieYoung Man
Richard HeslopDeposition
Derek JarmanDepositionHelga ByrneMagdalenFraser JacobsMournerMonica MolnerMournerMovie DNA
Frequently asked questions about Behind Closed Doors
What is Behind Closed Doors about?
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.
How long is Behind Closed Doors?
Behind Closed Doors has a runtime of 14 minutes.