Using some of the devices of the genre of melodrama – the staircase, the father – as some kind of destiny, Girl deals with the need and impossibility of re-creating a time, a place, and a memory. Cross-cutting between the girl protagonist and her father, the film creates a sense of crisis and conflict. As the girl invests her feelings in her surroundings and describes events connected to her father, we are drawn into a world of pain and pathos.

Credits
A film by Carol Morley
Girl Imogen Nooney
Girl’s voice Elizabeth Evans
Assistant camera Pierakis Pieri, Kat Sadler
Lighting Haris Zambaloukos, Freya Billington
Sound Mark Waller, David Gear
Art Director Stacey Williams
Titles Sofi Mordacq

A Fleapit Film
Produced at Central St Martins (graduation film)
Sponsored by the HTV Adopt A Student scheme

Selected Screenings
Happy Families programme, ICA, London, UK
The Filmmaking Years, retrospective of short film work from 1993, National Film Theatre, London, UK
Retrospective screening of short film work, curated by the Halloween Society, sponsored by the British Council, ICA, London, UK
Without Boundaries, retrospective of shot film work, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

Running time: 6 minutes, Format: 16mm, Year: 1993