Film

Behind Closed Doors

1988 · 14m

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.

Mary Rose

Mother

Tania Díez

Daughter

Anna Thew

Corpse

Rachel Thew

Young Woman

Harland Miller

Paolo

Yvonne Little

Francesca

Luc Borie

Young Man

Steve Farrer

Deposition

Richard Heslop

Deposition

Derek Jarman

Deposition

Martin Lugg

Deposition

Helga Byrne

Magdalen

Fraser Jacobs

Mourner

Monica Molner

Mourner

• Anna ThewDirector · Editor

Release date

January 1, 1988

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

14m