5th(2003)
Cheap Blonde
Janet MEREWETHER
- Australia
- 1998
- 5min
- 16mmm
- color
SYNOPSIS
A short study on the relationship between words and meaning comments on the subjects of gender, language, television, representation and culture. Looped video footage, filmed at a TV equipment trade show, provides the mesmerizing image of a woman sitting in front of a waterfall.
PROGRAM NOTE
A short study on the relationship between words and meaning comments on the subjects of gender, language, television, representation and culture. Looped video footage, filmed at a TV equipment trade show, provides the mesmerizing image of a woman sitting in front of a waterfall.
Director
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Janet MEREWETHERJanet MEREWETHER
Janet Merewether is a Sydney-based filmmaker, digital media artist and academic who established Screen Culture Pty Limited for the production of creative media projects. She has produced numerous award winning films and digital videos, including Cheap Blonde, Contemporary Case Studies, Palermo-‘History’ Standing Still and Jabe Babe – A Heightened Life which won the 2005 AFI Award for Best Directing in a Documentary, 2005 Lexus ‘IF’ Inside Film Award for Best Australian Documentary and the Merit Award at the Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2006.
Credit
- ProducerJanet Merewether
- Screenwriter Janet Merewether
- Cinematography Janet Merewether
- Editor Janet Merewether
- Sound Janet Merewether
