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Lights Out - Dead Ends

What privacy and control is afforded to people who sit at the heart of our news stories? Talia Augustidis offers a personal reflection on how we choose to remember someone.

鈥淪hould we delete the sex tape?鈥 Should we get rid of the crime scene photographs? How do I find a true image of my mum amidst the recordings, fragments and images she left behind?"

Exploring an archive of home videos, photographs, memories and news reports, Talia Augustidis reflects on how we choose to remember someone. Told through five chapters, each part focuses on a single image of her mum, who died when Talia was three. Dead Ends is an exploration of what privacy and control is afforded to people who sit at the heart of our news stories, as accidental absences and fragments of memory piece together these self-contained narratives of loss. Talia collected the tape for Dead Ends over several years. In 2022 she received a Content is Queen micro-grant, which allowed her to begin piecing these stories together.

Original music composed by Jeremy Warmsley
Produced by Talia Augustidis

A Falling Tree production for 大象传媒 Radio 4

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