Masks of Mer reviews
Review by on 25 Sep 2010
delightful!
a very important film
VERY IMPORTANT!...
first film of australian aboriginals
first ethnograhic film!!!!
WOW
i grew up in OZ and have never seen this footage....and why not??
i do believe this film should be seen by all me mates in Australia at the least!
very well done and obviously a labour of love.
a very important film
VERY IMPORTANT!...
first film of australian aboriginals
first ethnograhic film!!!!
WOW
i grew up in OZ and have never seen this footage....and why not??
i do believe this film should be seen by all me mates in Australia at the least!
very well done and obviously a labour of love.
Review by on 25 Sep 2010
This is the best film that I saw at the film festival. I attended because I thought it would be interesting - and it was - but it also turned out to be funny, sweet, insightful and above all, honest. It can't have been easy to take the few minutes of film that Haddon left us with and weave a story that held us wrapped for 40 minutes. Eaton did not sacrifice complexity and indeterminacy for the sake of making a good story. Instead, he took the complexity and indeterminacy of these scraps and patches of film as the story. It is because of the sensitivity with which the film dealt with questions of representation, cross cultural understanding, and historiography that it receives my vote for the best film at the festival.
