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ABSTRACT
Dubbed ‘a forgotten trailblazer’ of Australian filmmaking, Lilias Fraser was also the mother of cinematographer, Jane Castle, who spent more than a decade piecing together When the Camera Stopped Rolling (2021), a multifaceted documentary that draws on a rich archive of photographs, home movies and film footage shot by three generations of the Fraser-Castle family. Describing her love-hate relationship with the film, Castle says, ‘The final form was found through the making, rather than having a plan and applying a plan. I didn't know what it was about until it was finished.’ In its final form, When the Camera Stopped Rolling disrupts audience expectations of a hagiographic or elegiac narrative celebrating the lifetime achievements of Lilias Fraser. Ultimately, When the Camera Stopped Rolling is Jane Castle's story: an exquisite work of autofiction and self-extraction from the Fraser-Castle family and its audio-visual archives.
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This article was originally published with errors, which have now been corrected in the online version. Please see Correction (https://doi.org/10.1080/17503175.2023.2286568)
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Felicity Collins
Felicity Collins is an Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, La Trobe University. She has published widely on Australian screen culture and is the author of The Psyche of Feminist Filmmaking (PhD, 1995), The Films of Gillian Armstrong (1999), co-author with Therese Davis, Australian Cinema After Mabo (2004), and co-editor with Susan Bye and Jane Landman, A Companion to Australian Cinema (2019).