Voiceover (1996)
10 Sep 1996 • Documentary, Short
Actor Miranda Harcourt directs an ode to her broadcaster father Peter in this short documentary. The film emerges from vocal chords (via an endoscope) and uses the tools of her father's trade as a starting point for a free-ranging meditation on repression, shell shock and family ghosts. Peter's wartime job involved vetting messages home from the troops to check that the soldier hadn't been killed. Post-war, Peter was dumb-struck for a year, at a time when people didn't "talk about their deeper feelings". Voiceover won Best Short at the 1997 NZ Film and TV Awards.
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