Behind Closed Doors

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1988

Original language

English

Cast

Martin Lugg,Helga Byrne,Tania Díez,Derek Jarman,Fraser Jacobs,Monica Molner,Richard Heslop,Anna Thew,Steve Farrer,Harland Millerand 4 more

Director

Anna Thew

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt9364636