A film about holding on and letting go.
How do we make sense of the past through what we record and keep, what we make and share? Tracing her journey from Australia to the UK, director Joanna Callaghan weaves together her own personal history with a wider story of colonisation, migration and the role of geography in identity. Framed by a road trip through Australia, Callaghan uses a diverse range of recorded media to explore her relationship with the country, her family and her own creative life. Shaping this rich mix of archive material, including family photos, home movies and extracts from her own films and photography, Record builds to reveal a lifetime’s journey.
Record, 2020, 55′
Written and Directed – Joanna Callaghan
Music – Peter Coyte
Editing – Vera Simmonds, Joanna Callaghan
Photography – Joachim Bergamin, Joanna Callaghan
Produced – Heraclitus Pictures
Funded & Supported- Arts Council England, The Lock Up Gallery Newcastle, University of Sussex, University of Newcastle
