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PARKLANDS (from pressbook)Director's statement.
I grew up in Adelaide, a provincial Australian city. My father was a detective. These are the points of intersection between my life and Parklands.
I wanted to make a film that treated the suburbs with dignity. The sixties' dream of the planned suburb. "Here everything is catered for." The patterns of suburban life. A domestic space for the family and a vehicle to connect to the wider world.
But I also wanted to deal with the emotional landscapes of suburbia. Where do people's fears, hopes and dreams fit into the ideal planned life? Why do some childhood images have resonance well into adult life while others fade from memory? Rosie's investigation into the mystery surrounding the last few years of her father's life provides the narrative context for exploring these ideas of time and place.
Parklands' dramatic logic is that of memory, with all its associated emotional undercurrents. It builds its own distinctive narrative structure through an accumulation of fragments and remembered moments.
Kathryn Millard.