Behind Closed Doors

The story

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.

Cast

M Mary RoseMother T Tania DíezDaughter R Rachel ThewYoung Woman H Harland MillerPaolo Y Yvonne LittleFrancesca L Luc BorieYoung Man R Richard HeslopDeposition D Derek JarmanDeposition H Helga ByrneMagdalen F Fraser JacobsMourner M Monica MolnerMourner