Projects matching: Jocelyn Cammack

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At 101, Rose is a former journalist, sex-therapist and counsellor and now the oldest newspaper columnist in the world. Hetty, 102, is a veteran Stop-the-War campaigner, just about to embark on her 84th peace march; and Alison, 87, is a novelist and self-styled ‘establishment lady’ who was once a committed member of the Communist Party.

Hetty, Rose and Alison are three of the oldest residents of the Mary Feilding Guild, a home for the ‘active elderly’, and regularly share their impassioned concerns on everything from terrorism to global warming, the rise of fundamentalism, and the decline of the media – not to mention the meaning of life, death and existence. But despite their unstoppable enthusiasm, humour and passion, all three women are not simply ready for death – they actively want to die.

At the end of lives lived with passion and purpose, Hetty, Rose and Alison are facing the painful reality of physical, sometimes mental, deterioration and its consequences for their sense of identity and worth. In the singular community of the Mary Feilding Guild, they bring to the screen a rare perspective on old age. They are first-hand witnesses who have gone ahead and report back to us from the edge of their own mortality. They can tell us things of which no-one ever speaks.

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Explores the world of 8 years-old Rachel as she embarks on a series of experiments in an attempt to understand her defective vision. Balancing the innate desire of an 8-years old to appear normal with the visual chaos of her everyday life, Better Or Worse? plays with notions of perspective both real and imagined through the motif of a diving board.

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Exploring the world of an eight-year-old as she embarks upon a series of experiments attempting to make sense of her defective eyesight.

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DIY is a serious and irreverent film framed by the search of contemporary gay artist, Michael Atavar, for clues to his culture and his past. Through the location of a disused public toilet and notorious cottage in Islington, a cottage once frequented by playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell, the film explores changes in Britain and changes in gay life.