Gordon H. Brown Lecture 4: Annie Goldson, 'Memory, Landscape, Dad & Me' | 2006

Published 2006 by Tāhuhu Kōrero Toi Art History, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
47 pages
190 x 150mm, softcover, with black and white illustrations
Edited by Christina Barton
ISSN 1176-5887

Includes a limited-edition DVD version of Goldson's film Wake.

Memory, Landscape, Dad & Me is Annie Goldson’s thoughtful account of her 1994 experimental documentary film Wake, which explores her family’s experience of immigrating to New Zealand in the 1960s. This film offers a personal encounter with a new home, but it also serves as an instance of our common history. By weaving together her father’s home movies with nineteenth-century watercolour depictions and her own documentary footage, Goldson produces a powerfully evocative film that raises issues about New Zealand’s history, its landscapes and its people. Her considered account of this project is an exemplary instance of postcolonial theory and practice that will be of interest to all who share a desire to understand the complex links between history, memory and representation. 

Annie Goldson is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker. Since Wake, Goldson has produced and/or directed six films: Seeing Red; Punitive Damage; Georgie Girl; Sheilas: 28 Years On; Pacific Solution: From Afghanistan to Aotearoa; and the newly completed Elgar’s Enigma: Biography of a Concerto. Goldson is also a writer and teacher. She is Associate Professor in Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland.