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Main Title: Anne Deveson's Paper trails / director and writer: Sari Braithwaite ; producers: Britt Arthur, Katia Nizic.
Author: Deveson, Anne, 1930-2016, participlant.
Braithwaite, Sari
Arthur, Britt
Nizic, Katia, producer.
Generator Pictures Pty Ltd, production company.
Film Art Media, issuing body.
Imprint: Melbourne, Vic. : Film Art Media Pty Ltd., 2018.
Collation: 1 videodisc (28 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject: Deveson, Anne 1930-2016
Documentary films
Australian movies and television programs
Broadcasting and broadcasters
Feminism and feminists
Archives
Women
Alzheimer's disease
Biography
Notes:
Anne Deveson was a magnificent woman: the first female talk-back broadcaster in Australia, she was also a writer, activist, mental health advocate, and mother. When director Sari Braithwaite met Anne in 2015, she was attempting to bundle up thousands of private papers for the National Library of Australia (NLA). Sari offered to help and over the next six months they transform Anne's 85-year paper trail into a mountain of neatly stacked brown boxes for the permanent collection at the NLA. But during this time, Anne's brain starts to fail her. Alzheimer's, the illness that took her mother and grandmother, is gaining hold, and she is feeling the pressure to move into care. While she has stacks of miscellaneous files to sort, Anne has resolved to keep living in her own home, on her own terms. As she seeks to make sense of her life through the archives, she discovers that the storylines she's seeking to piece together are becoming harder and harder to find. What to keep, what to discard? Anne writes in her diary, ho am I to think I matter? Anne Deveson's work had a significant impact on our country: for over half a century, she pushed for change in social justice, women's rights, mental health, disability rights, and international aid. The rich, audio visual archive becomes the anchor for telling Anne's story, and it is crucial that we gain access to this material - which is why we need philanthropic support. The film weaves between Anne Deveson's present and past as we time travel through her rich archive, exploring the changes and repetitions that appear over a lifetime. While Anne may be packing her life's work into boxes it is, at best, a mirage of order. The chaotic beauty of Anne Deveson, or any of us, defies a singular telling or definitive portrait.
Result Collection Location Shelf No Status Notes
Video Library Computers Folder: Video Available Not for loan
DVD Display DVD 920 DEV BRA Available not for loan