Painter turned filmmaker Anna Thew discusses her first steps in filmmaking, leading to her feature film Hilda was a Goodlooker, which dramatises her mother's reminiscences and Behind Closed Doors, which deals with the trauma of losing her mother suddenly. Anna's cinema is deeply personal and yet possesses universal appeal, which will be approachable to audiences everywhere. Highly literate and indeed cine-literate, these are works that amply reward repeated viewings to explore their links to other works.
Find a selection of Anna's films on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user4605273
Filmmakers discussed in this episode include:
Anne Rees Mogg
Rose Lowder
Peter Gidal
Malcolm LeGrice
David Hall
Chris Wellsby
Guy Sherwin
Marcel Duchamp
John Smith
Steve Farrer
Katerina Thomadaki
Maria Klonaris
Yann Beauvais
Cordelia Swan
John Maybury
Derek Jarman
Stan Brakhage
Kenneth Anger
Terence Davies
George Saxon
Writers discussed in this episode include:
Alexei Sayle
Walter Benjamin
Jean Genet
