-
Details
- Date
- 1982
- Media categories
- Time-based art , Film
- Materials used
- 16mm film, colour, black and white, optical sound
- Dimensions
- duration: 00:23:00 min
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with assistance from the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council 1986
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 36.1986
- Copyright
- © Margaret Dodd
- Artist information
-
Margaret Dodd
Works in the collection
- Share
-
About
A mother, isolated in an outer Adelaide suburb drives a station wagon full of children to a distant beach. Imagination and reality fuse. Her sense of herself is assaulted by car-fetishists in a rural service station. Memory, fear and fantasy are interwoven as the film takes Woman’s assigned role in the ‘Australian Dream’ to its absurd conclusion.
Script/Direction: Margaret Dodd
Actors: Pauline Sedgewick (as the Mother) and Phil Colson (as the Mechanic)
Cinematography: John Foster and David Foreman
Editing: Tim Burns, Margaret Dodd and Sarah Gibson
Post production: Sara Bennett
Ceramic models: Margaret Dodd
Music: Throbbing Gristle, Brian Eno, Pelaco Bros. and Fabulous Nudes -
Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Australian Perspecta 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 May 1983–26 Jun 1983
Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995
-
Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
-
Bernice Murphy, Australian Perspecta 1983, Sydney, 1983, 39 illus..
-