Fahimeh’s Story
Posted on | April 3, 2005 |
The SBSi day was fantastic. The highlight for me was Faramarz K-Rahber’s Fahimeh’s Story, which I had missed when it screened on TV, but won the IF award for embodying the ‘independent spirit’ last year. The director and star were both at the screening, which was evidently moving for them but also for us as an audience given how involved in this woman’s life the film made us feel. It was a nice touch that the events mostly took place in Brisbane, too. If you haven’t seen it, try to get your hands on a copy, or better, order it for your library. Some stories tell us so much about this country, and the formidable capacities of those who come to it and help us learn more about how lucky we really are.
John Saffran was also good fun. Seeing the exorcism scene in vs God was no less affecting the second time. It was interesting to hear him speak about it. He seemed genuinely open to the experience and remains respectful of what happened, even while not wanting to describe it in terms that would suit particular interests - religious, sceptic, whatever. I can’t help liking the guy. Despite his performative front on camera, he’s affable, modest and endearing in person. We so wanted to take him out for a beer, and spare him the groupies wanting their DVDs signed. But then, I’m always a sucker for industry celebrity.
SBSi have an $11 million budget. They’re desperate for new ideas, so if you’ve got a project in mind, get it in.
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April 3rd, 2005 @ 12:16 pm
What was the home movie thingy like?
April 3rd, 2005 @ 8:42 pm
There were only two Homemade History flicks, and in both cases I was frustrated by the time limitation! Particularly in the second film - Ken Garrahy’s record of Sydney’s clandestine gay scene leading up to the first Oxford Street protest:
http://www.sbs.com.au/sbsi/titles.html?phd=1&titlesid=772
Fascinating. And motivating! I want to start my own club with a host of Blue Mountains holiday homes to choose from!
Anyway, they made me want to ring my dad and ask him to fish our old films and projector, which I’d totally forgotten about. Something to follow up on the next trip to Tassie.
April 3rd, 2005 @ 9:11 pm
Yeah! Get them digitised…and away you go with iMovie
April 3rd, 2005 @ 10:02 pm
Ken Garrahy’s footage was spectacular - so many lovely moments - the girls hiding under the boat, the cheesey gay sports day. And such amazing historical material that is such a great example of why archiving moving image is so important.
I’m helping organise a sydney s8 event for World Home Movie Day, which is on May 8, which will involve hopefully much fishing out of old films.
I had a great discussion with a friend who works in govt film archiving about scholars and archives yesterday, and how little knowledge there is about just what kind of footage is held in archives and libraries which cult st people would find incredibly useful if they knew it existed - which is partly why projects like Homemade hIstory are so damn valuable!
Uh, and if you do find films and have any offcuts you know where to send em, right? jx
April 4th, 2005 @ 9:25 am
I rang my Dad last night and he threw out the reels years ago! And the projector! V sad. I remember there was footage of the Huon Valley Apple Queen parade which I would love to see again. Reminds me of some of Catherine Driscoll’s work on country show grrls.
April 4th, 2005 @ 10:24 am
Oh NOoOOOOOOOOOoOOOOO! Dad’s shouldn’t be allowed to throw stuff out without holding a family meeting first!