| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (59 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in |
| Summary |
An impressionistic portrait of actor Robert Ratti is enclosed by two performances - the opening enactment of murder and the closing psychodrama played out between Ratti and the filmmaker in which the actor summons up disturbing depths of emotion to a degree that cannot be adequately described as performative. Fear of the Dark is a companion to Journey to the End of Night. Together these two films engage in what the filmmaker calls "a tug-of-war between reality and imagination," injecting new meaning into the notion of "performance as an outgrowth of the essential self", a phrase James Narremore uses in a discussion of the Method in his book Acting in the Cinema |
| Notes |
Also available on 16 mm. film. Originally released in 1985 |
| Credits |
Filmmaker, Peter Tammer ; photography, Graeme Wood, Peter Tammer, David Lindsay ; production, Philip Alderton ; sound, Mark Atkin |
| Notes |
No rating given |
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DVD. Region unspecified |
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Available to Deakin staff and students only |
| Subject |
Ratti, Robert
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Actors -- Australia -- Portraits.
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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Portraits.
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| Author |
Lindsay, David.
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Tammer, Peter
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Wood, Graeme.
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Alderton, Philip W
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Atkin, Mark
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Ratti, Robert
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