Margaret Dodd
(Australia 1941– )
- Title
- This woman is not a car
- Year
- 1982
- Media categories
- Time-based media, Film
- Materials used
- 16mm, colour and black and white, optical sound, 23 min
- Dimensions
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with assistance from the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council 1986
- Accession number
- 36.1986
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
A mother, isolated in an outer Adelaide suburb drives a station wagon full of children to a distant beach. Imagination and reality fuse. Her sense of herself is assaulted by car-fetishists in a rural service station. Memory, fear and fantasy are interwoven as the film takes Woman’s assigned role in the ‘Australian Dream’ to its absurd conclusion.
Script/Direction: Margaret Dodd
Actors: Pauline Sedgewick (as the Mother) and Phil Colson (as the Mechanic)
Cinematography: John Foster and David Foreman
Editing: Tim Burns, Margaret Dodd and Sarah Gibson
Post production: Sara Bennett
Ceramic models: Margaret Dodd
Music: Throbbing Gristle, Brian Eno, Pelaco Bros. and Fabulous Nudes- Bibliography (1)
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Bernice Murphy (Australia) (Author), Australian Perspecta 1983, Sydney, 1983, 39 illus..
- Exhibition history (2)
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Australian Perspecta 1983, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 12 May 1983–26 Jun 1983.
Review - works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 08 Mar 1995–04 Jun 1995.
