My Private Life I (1:02:55) & II (25:24). Documentary film in two parts.
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University of East London
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 4
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
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- Year
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Research group(s)
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2 - Moving Image Research Centre (MIRC)
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Private Life I: https://vimeo.com/104385249
Private Life II: https://vimeo.com/139077147
Centring on the unacknowledged homosexuality of the film-maker's father, My Private Life 1 & II offer an autobiographical study of families and their secrets, and an investigation into fraught memories. The films explore how the hybrid strategies of experimental documentary help mediate memories, using multiple voice-overs in different tenses, including the retrospective voice of the film-maker/ daughter. This aural layering conveys multiple coexisting temporalities, adding texture and complexity to a traditionally linear and authoritative documentary narrative voice. Found footage intensifies the sense of past spilling over into present.
In My Private Life II footage from the earlier film is re-edited through split screens: family members appear in separate spaces, triggering a reevaluation of the previous film’s discourse and pressing viewers to reflect on their changing interactions with the screens. Daniels thus represents herself as an autobiographical fiction, suggesting the rich possibilities of self–reflexivity for the exploration of social relations.
Awards and funding:
My Private Life II Best Experimental Film, Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2017
My Private Life II Innovation Award Nomination, Arts & Humanities Research Council Film Awards, 2016.
My Private Life Honourable Mention, Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, USA, 2015
(AHRC) Film Awards – Nomination Innovation Category.
Screenings (2016):
Visible Evidence XXIII International Documentary Conference, Montana State University, USA.
‘Filming the Personal’ as part of collection of autobiographical films about fathers and grandfathers, co-curated with Sally Waterman.
Future Screens at Journal of Media Practice/MeCCSA Practice Symposium at University of London South Bank.
Sightlines Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
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- Non-English
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