The Lost Reels

Director: Matthew Humphreys

Year: 2014

From 2010-2013 I recorded every departure from my parents home on an iPhone. form relationships with cameras and these in turn expose the relationships I have with my family. The routine that I followed reveals the dissolution of a family home.

Director: Matthew Humphreys

Year: 2013

My work constitutes a core interest in the languages of communication embedded in the social relationships and contexts of the everyday. In Living Room I collated video and sound over time from a single geographic location about the dissolution of family life.

Director: Eamon Bourke

Year: 2026

Filmmaker Eamon Bourke lost his mother, Sue, when he was three and has no memory of her. When his father decides to sell the remote Lake District home where she died, Eamon returns with his camera to document the house and its clearing. Among Sue’s belongings - diaries, poems, photographs and tapes - he discovers a box of damaged cassette recordings. After painstakingly repairing them, he uncovers something extraordinary: his mother’s voice. Through these intimate audio diaries, Sue speaks candidly about motherhood, sings to her children, and captures fleeting family moments Eamon never knew. One final tape records her describing the onset of hepatitis, days before she fell into a coma and died in 1983. Another, more haunting still, features three-year-old Eamon calling out to his unconscious mother in hospital, in a desperate attempt to bring her back. As Eamon pieces together this archive, he confronts the enduring impact of early loss, speaking with his father and sisters while retracing the emotional landscape of his childhood. Set against the vast beauty of the Lake District, a deeply personal exploration of grief, memory and love - an attempt to recover what was lost, and to finally say goodbye.