5th(2003)
Tourette’s Tics
Janet MEREWETHER
- Australia
- 1994
- 6min
- 16mmm
- color
SYNOPSIS
What do Gilles de la Tourette’s disease, animal impersonators, Freud’s patients and the Ancient Greeks have in common? Tourette’s Tics is a short experimental mockcumentary, which questions the authority of the ‘expert in the white coat,’ and transforms hysteria into the hysterical.
PROGRAM NOTE
What do Gilles de la Tourette’s disease, animal impersonators, Freud’s patients and the Ancient Greeks have in common? Tourette’s Tics is a short experimental mockcumentary, which questions the authority of the ‘expert in the white coat,’ and transforms hysteria into the hysterical.
Director
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Janet MEREWETHERJanet MEREWETHER
Janet Merewether is a Sydney-based filmmaker, digital media artist and academic who established Screen Culture Pty Limited for the production of creative media projects. She has produced numerous award winning films and digital videos, including Cheap Blonde, Contemporary Case Studies, Palermo-‘History’ Standing Still and Jabe Babe – A Heightened Life which won the 2005 AFI Award for Best Directing in a Documentary, 2005 Lexus ‘IF’ Inside Film Award for Best Australian Documentary and the Merit Award at the Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2006.
Credit
- Cast Achilles Lavidis
- Screenwriter Janet Merewether
- Cinematography Chantal Abouchar
- Editor Janet Merewether
- Sound Deb Harris
