Genevieve BaileyView Genevieve Bailey's film (.wmv - 10MB)
It is nearly 5 years since I lost my Dad to prostate cancer, I was 22 when he died. I remember someone telling me that it is common when experiencing loss, to stop at inconvenient times and cry, at the supermarket, at work, on a tram. I feel that cancer will always make me cry, and I am not the only one.
I seek to understand others and learn through my filmmaking, so I explored this universal action by asking a diverse range of people "When was the last time you cried?"
This film is in memory of my gorgeous Nanna Mary Tobin who appears in the documentary, just weeks before she lost her ability to speak, and months before she passed away.
by Deb Verhoeven, film critic
This is a very accomplished piece of filmmaking inspired by the filmmaker's experience of grief after her father's death from cancer. In this video, the filmmaker asks a range of different people five questions about happiness and sadness. Whilst ‘Last Time I Cried' doesn't specifically address cancer, the film has much to say about the way in which grief and happiness are felt in everyday lives with the implicit suggestion that cancer is just one amongst many experiences that raise and broaden our emotions.
The film's style - using a series of still images to create a sequence that is almost, but not quite, continuous - suggests that, similarly, we don't possess our feelings in a smooth and uninterrupted way either but that we are present to our emotions in intermittent and unexpected ways.
