A dream, a visual diary: disruptive narrative modes in <i>When the Camera Stopped Rolling</i> (Jane Castle, 2021)

Dubbed ‘a forgotten trailblazer’ of Australian filmmaking, Lilias Fraser was also the mother cinematographer, Jane Castle, who spent more than a decade piecing together When Camera Stopped Rolling (2021), multifaceted documentary that draws on rich archive photographs, home movies and film footage shot by three generations Fraser-Castle family. Describing her love-hate relationship with film, Castle says, ‘The final form found through making, rather having plan applying plan. I didn't know what it about until finished.’ In its form, disrupts audience expectations hagiographic or elegiac narrative celebrating lifetime achievements Fraser. Ultimately, is Castle's story: an exquisite work autofiction self-extraction from family audio-visual archives.