Rachael Romero
In The Shadow of Eden
a 22 minute film by Rachael Romero
Employing home movies, photographs and her artwork, the narrator comes to grips with the physical, sexual and emotional abuse she suffered at the hands of her religion-fixated father while growing up in rural Australia. The film documents her running away, her incarceration in a Magdalene Laundry, her world travels and her return home to confront her past at her father's deathbed.
Assembled from old 8 mm family films, and photography by the film maker, and George Auzans, Roger Ricco, Tokya Dammond, Henry Hagerty, Leon Klayman, Ginger Chih, Bahman Karimnia and Michael Belenky. Written, directed and narrated by Rachael Romero.
Music by Charles Gross.
New York Times Critic's Pick.
In the Shadow of Eden, 2004
"Spellbinding...haunting and remarkably courageous."--writes TL of Full Frame Film Festival
“Extraordinary in its synthesis of rage and compassion…” --Lucy Lippard
In the Shadow of Eden, premiered at the Yale Center for British Art in September 2003 where it won a Short Film Prize, from Film Fest New Haven. Since then has screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival, the Santa Fe Film Festival, Moondance (where it won the Spirit Award for short doc,) Boulder, CO and The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina where, with the help of The New York Times and a board that includes Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Ken Burns, and Barbara Kopple it was among six shorts chosen from over 100 ground-breaking documentaries Available now on DVD – FULL FRAME DOCUMENTARY SHORTS, VOLUME 4 the best of the fest.
In the Shadow of Eden by Rachael Romero
22minutes Available from Docurama Films on
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VOLUME 4 DVD
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Full Frame Documentary Shorts Collection: Vol. 4
Full Frame Documentary Shorts Vol. 4 brings together yet another fascinating collection of compelling and delightful short films from North America's preeminent documentary film festival.
