Project Detail

Ashes

Synopsis

When a loved one dies and you're left with the ashes, what do you do with them? Ashes is a series of monologues with five different people considering just that, and in the process reflecting, with humour and affection upon their relationships with their dead relatives.

Details

Year: 2009
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 11 mins
Format: Digital Betacam Pal 16x9 Anamorphic
Director: Magda Segal
Producer: Magda Segal
Co-Producer: Magda Segal
Editor: Magda Segal, Victoria Stevens, Bunny Schendler, Richard Wright
Director of Photography: Magda Segal
Sound: Digital Composer - Jonathan Hodgson
Composer: Trumpet Gaia Segal

Genre

Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

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Driven by a recurring urge to encounter strangers with her camera, the filmmaker begins to film her solitary Greek Cypriot neighbour Pete in the tower block in London where they both live. Around the same time, her father in Denmark receives a cancer diagnosis requiring her to spend more time with him. As her father gradually slips back into the depression that made him absent when she was a teenager, she feels a need to document this transition. Her compulsion to enter into Pete’s life and to film him echoes with her desire for understanding her father’s experience of isolation and loneliness, as well as her own relationship to it. ALL THESE SUMMERS asks questions about responsibility in life and in film whilst intimately confronting the complexities of the daughter-father and filmmaker-subject relationship. Official Selection CPH DOX 2025

Biography Experimental Woman Director