Mick's Gift
Directed by Celeste Geer2002 27m
The late Mick Hudson was an adventurer, inventor and 16mm film addict who seems to be remembered differently by everyone. Celeste's memories of her grandfather Mick are the idealized memories of childhood. She has inherited the filmmaking bug from Mick whose lost footage of New York, Papua New Guinea and Melbourne in the 1940's and 1950's she recently discovered. As Celeste sets out to find the 'real' Mick through his film footage and the memories of his family, less glamorous and sometimes contradictory images emerge which lead us to question the way family memories get tailored for the consumption of future generations.
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