AustLit

'My two children are biological siblings who joined our family when they were six months old respectively. My partner and I are their parents and legal guardians who incorporate into our family life four annual, court-ordered visits with their biological parents. I make this point in order to illustrate the ethical, as well as theoretical and creative, issues within my wider project, of which a short film (script below) is a part. I want to respect the privacy of my children and my partner, and I want to respect the stories of others entwined with my own. When my little girl died unexpectedly, my mind fractured. In order to show the vertigo, disassociation and hyperarousal of what is known as complicated grief, the non-confluence between image, sound and word was uppermost in my mind when conceptualising All the Little Boxes. ' (Introduction)