| Description |
4 videodisc (DVD)s (ca. 60 min. each) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Maverick mother -- Disc 2. Two mums and a dad -- Disc 3. Making babies - Eps 1 and 2 -- Disc 4. Two men and two babies |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of SBS broadcast April 3, 2009. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
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Off air copy is only of Maverick Mother. |
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DVD. Region unspecified. |
| Credits |
Director: Janet Merewether |
| Notes |
Originally released : Film Finance, 2007 |
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"This compilation from SBS's Future Families season explores the nature of family in today's complicated society. It is made of of four documentaries: Making Babies, 2 Mums and a Dad, Two Men and Two Babies and Maverick Mother. Making Babies explores the fears recipients face and the reality of what it means to be a non-biological parent. Donors explain their motivations and what their expectations are once the child arrives. For the first time the complexities of what it means to create a family using someone else's genetic material are spoken about candidly from a range of personal perspectives. 2 Mums and a Dad is a unique exploration of the nature of family in today's complicated society. It is a sometimes roller coaster ride from pregnancy to parenthood in a most unusual unit, while also tackling universal issues of relevance for anyone with a family. Two Men and Two Babies takes audiences back into the lives of Tony and Lee, one of Australia's first gay male couples to take the controversial step of creating a family through commercial surrogacy. Tired of waiting for the perfect partner, and alarmed by the deafening tic-toc of her biological clock, 39-year-old filmmaker, Janet Merewether decides to take life into her own hands and embark on a journey into the new social phenomenon of solo motherhood by choice. She joins a waiting list for a donor insemination program, but while waiting has an affair with a Swiss man and falls pregnant. After the birth of her son Arlo, her journey now becomes that of solo motherhood by chance. In Maverick Mother, Janet documents her medical and emotional experiences and the birth of her son through personal and at times irreverent video diaries and performed studio reconstructions. These reconstructions rework the traditional image of the "ideal mother", Darwinian concepts of "natural selection" and definitions of the role of the father. The interweaves observational video footage, including the birth, as well as constructing imagery from genres such as the horror film, which represent the public's aversion to the visceral, messy reality of birth." -- website |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
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Rated: M |
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Families
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Single parents
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Fathers
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Mothers
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Children of gay parents -- Social aspects
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Artificial insemination, Human -- Social aspects
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| Author |
Merewether, Janet
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SBS-TV
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EnhanceTV (Firm)
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