Voiceover

Voiceover

  • Overview
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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1996

Runtime

0h 13m

Original Title

Voiceover

Director

Miranda Harcourt

Description

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”.