5th(2003)
Short before the Movie
Janet MEREWETHER
- Australia
- 2003
- 6min
- 16mmm
- color
SYNOPSIS
Jonas Mekas wrote that 8mm home movies would be the folk art of the 20th century. Short before the Movies take us on a quick trip to the crossroads of cinema, where film as commodity, artform, home movie and cultural document meet.
PROGRAM NOTE
Jonas Mekas wrote that 8mm home movies would be the folk art of the 20th century. Short before the Movies take us on a quick trip to the crossroads of cinema, where film as commodity, artform, home movie and cultural document meet.
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
- ProducerJanet Merewether
- Cast Brent Clough, Valerie Marteau
- Screenwriter Janet Merewether
- Cinematography Janet Merewether
- Editor Janet Merewether
- Sound Greg Fitzgerald
