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The hidden spring.
Directed by Jason Di Rosso
Divided by 4000 kilometres, a son and his dying father connect in this profoundly intimate documentary debut.
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08 aug 2023, releases by country.
- Premiere Melbourne International Film Festival
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Review by Felix Hubble ★★★★
Based Chad Di Rosso delivers a cinematic knock out!!
(fr... extremely solid, interesting and intimate film - fantastic in a cinema, and love Dimitri Zaunder's grade; v excellent to see someone local grapple with global essay cinema, but especially the work of two of our GOATs, Jeni Thornley and Margot Nash (name dropped by Di Rosso in his intro tonight and also screening very accomplished new works at MIFF - had a couple of flashbacks to The Silences hanging out watching this, with some very excellent and worthwhile digressions), making something that's also very much his own thing, that I found particularly strong when grappling with the loss of aspects of cultural identity. Unironically a banger and very funny that the sole musical work featured in the film - to great effect at its top and tail - is just something found online that worked.)
Review by Shea
Di Rosso conjures up so much from so little - evocations of distance and absence thru what the camera rests on and what it doesn’t. A film that feels as though it is searching for itself, slowly piecing together a bigger picture one chance moment at a time. The notion of architecture as memory is fascinating and I found the suggestion that a house is like a camera (a quote from whom I can't recall) to be deeply resonant with what Di Rosso attempts here in the humble domestic set-ups. Also a surprising focus on planes, trains and automobiles and the landscapes they traverse.
Honestly it's a privilege just to see something this intimate in a theatre. Nothing but good and generous thoughts from Jason Di Rosso after the screening, made all the more special by his various musings to me on Adelaide later throughout the day.
Review by Daniel
Always going to be up for this kind of handmade semi-experimental work but even accounting for that pre-existing predilection I think this is something really special. Di Rosso strikes a perfect balance between formal looseness and rigour, allowing conscious connections and unconscious feeling to flow through the film with equal weight. Geography as emotion (and vice versa) is one of my favourite motifs in art and The Hidden Spring is as potent an example I've seen recently. The distances - Sydney and Perth, word and image, thought and expression, father and son - are so much larger than the things they connect and disconnect that they almost start to mean more than the things themselves. Finding peace in those empty spaces is probably impossible, life itself.
Review by Ashlea💧🦎🐜 ★★★★
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
With my father over in WA, this film was bound to stir emotions in me, and it did. I liked Jason Di Rosso's stylistic choices; I hope he can trust his artistic sensibility moving forward (he was hopeful his choice of music resonated in the Q & A). The score was particularly well suited to the subject. It's an odd feeling when your father is complicated and hard to break through yet still adored by you. Yes, you could feel the distance between the two, but also the underlying, unspoken bond of love. Jason narrated the film and briefly touched on fear when it comes to sick loved ones;…
Review by Flynn Boffo ★★★★
I really connected to this one, in ways I never thought I would.
Review by C L ★★
Crafting an artsy documentary that delves into the life of a seemingly distant and now deceased father, while omitting any tangible interactions with the said father, carries distinct consequences. The resultant documentary assumes the form of a unilateral narrative, founded predominantly on the director's abundant verbal commentary and meticulously selected visual elements. While proponents might contend that the documentary serves as an intimate portrayal of the director's personal perspective regarding his departed father, I am inclined to perceive the documentary's structural approach as one that inadvertently marginalizes the father's presence. Throughout the documentary, the father remains an elusive entity, his portrayal invariably shaped by the director's subjective narrations that mirror his own emotions and sentiments toward his progenitor. The conspicuous…
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Author Jason Di Rosso
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Jason Di Rosso is a film critic at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and host of the weekly radio show The Final Cut . He is currently completing a Doctorate of Creative Arts in the School of Communication, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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Interview with Jason Di Rosso / The Hidden Spring
by Flynn Boffo
Radio National’s ‘The Screen Show’ and its host, Jason Di Rosso was my introduction to film criticism. With his weekly show, my eyes were opened to the wider world of international cinema. Consequently, Jason played an important role in the path that has led me to this moment where you are reading my writing. Upon discovering that he was releasing a film of his own this year, I felt compelled to reach out.
The Hidden Spring is an essay film, exploring both the physical and spiritual distance between a terminally ill father and his son. It is the distance itself that Di Rosso candidly frames, reflecting on his father in Perth as he observes life changes around him in Sydney.
One thing that struck me about The Hidden Spring was its sense of reflection, filmed mostly within Jason’s inner west home. The familiar sounds of planes and trains are never far away, this motif of transport and the tracks connecting destinations are deeply embedded into Jason’s immigrant background.
Flynn Boffo: I am interested in learning more about the moment when you felt motivated to actually pick up a camera and start filming this.
Jason Di Rosso: It was just so intuitive, I was experiencing this initial shock and feeling of grief, anticipating my father’s decline. I was also doing a research doctorate at UTS, part of which was going to be some kind of film, and I had to in some way trust intuition and see what was going to emerge.
So that’s how the film really emerged. I started to get a sense that there’s a potential language here that will work for a film dealing with these themes, like the motif of looking out the window, but also like the diaristic kind of shots of the dinner table. It just sort of emerged in that way, but it was very ad hoc.
FB: I really connected with the idea of making art in a reaction, to grief, in reaction to something happening in your life that’s out of your control. I found a lot of comfort in the idea that your world might be changing rapidly, but the camera’s in your hands and you’re framing it right now.
I found that really interesting, as a film critic and a filmmaker, how you’ve used cinema to make sense of your world during this time.
JDR: Yes, there’s a therapeutic aspect to making this film and also picking up a camera, shooting images, and recording sound. In the digital age, where cameras come with microphones, you can’t help but think of images in connection with sound. There’s such a drama to the sound of living on a railway. And that’s both the trains going past, but also the extraordinary sounds of the maintenance crews at night, that stuff sounds crazy. It’s almost science fiction. The sounds are made with metal under tension.
JDR: That’s true too. I think there’s a sense of transience in the film, a sense of people in motion. There’s a tension within the film for people to reflect on, deep in the film, a sense of uprootedness within my family history that in some way I’m still part of because I’ve left Perth.
There’s been no sort of arriving at the destination for me in a sense. The film was at least trying to suggest that there’s still that momentum from almost three generations ago that began with my great-grandparents, which I don’t mention in the film.
These are things that emerge almost after you’ve made the film, there’s this theme of work and labor, and I think there’s a tension there between the labor of maintaining things and upkeep, which goes into the idea of dwelling that people like Heidegger talk about, where to dwell in a place is to meaningfully engage with it, cultivate it, and maintain it in some way.
So the labor outside of the workers on the railway is that kind of labor. I was drawn to that, apart from the fact that visually I thought it was interesting, they also seem to come from another realm.
During COVID, all the hidden labor was suddenly noticeable and I thought that sort of labor of maintenance was a really important theme in my film. And, it’s in a dialogue with another kind of labor which isn’t about maintaining. It’s about breaking ground and building the first thing somewhere. And it’s a disruptive, penetrating sort of labor.
FB: I was quite surprised that you didn’t start it during the lockdown. Watching the film even from the first shots, you beautifully photographed the space and it was cool seeing you take this moment to really reflect on your environment as many of us were later forced to during the lockdown.
JDR: Yeah. It’s funny because the lockdown ended up being a period of collective grieving. When COVID happened, we left the world behind and we weren’t really sure if we were going to get back to that world at all.
All of that was happening, so there is a double grief in the film in that sense. It just so happened that the expression of the grief that I was sort of feeling with my dad being ill was already evoking that reflection and it was evoking a kind of visual language that was locked down but it was very inspired by a film, I mean there are a few films that based their visual language around the motif of looking out windows.
But, one of the most influential on me was Ackermann’s Là-bas ( Down There ), a film she made when she was teaching at university in Tel Aviv. Almost exclusively of shots looking out the window of the rental apartment she had in Tel Aviv at her neighbor’s with a room and a voiceover.
FB: It’s interesting you mention that, because for me it feels very evocative of the films of Agnes Varda, particularly L’opéra-mouffe ( Diary of a Pregnant Woman ) which she made when she was pregnant and is told from her perspective looking down at the markets from her window.
JDR: I was very interested in this notion of just looking out at the world. You’re never really sure until you make the film, what you’ve got. But I thought out the window I had a few layers that were going to be aesthetically interesting enough to photograph and to use as a motif again and again, a photographic motif.
FB: To see all of these symbols that you were surrounded with, you did a really great job at finding the connections to your father. You’ve got the train tracks, you’ve got the fact that your house is being renovated during this time. It was interesting, almost like you were taking off the shell of your house. You find yourself in this grief and your kitchen is being torn down.
JDR: There is this notion of the layers of history that I was reflecting on with my father and then my family more generally, and then these literal layers that are being ripped off the wall, you know, walls in my house. And I also thought there’s something, given that it’s a film about someone who you don’t really see and a situation that’s central but you don’t really see, which is an illness and its treatments and all of that.
I was just trying to find some kind of language that on a symbolic level, or even just the subconscious emotional level, could, speak to that and articulate those feelings and that situation.
JDR: The film does have quite a reticence about it though. There aren’t these full frontal shots of me or my family or close-ups. People are often shot in shadows and so forth.That renders everything less, it takes things out of realism a bit and elevates them to a kind of archetypal level.
But also with this film, if I put too much detail in, it would almost become a little bit more banal. I wanted things to be sometimes just reduced to figures, like my mother for example.
FB: I see that in the scene where she is directing you.
JDR: Yes. Off camera.
There’s a sort of filmmaker that’s very much about full disclosure and throwing the audience into a kind of self-interrogation. In this film, I was always conscious of playing with the tension between that approach and something that kept a distance.
FB: Interesting that you say it like that, you’ve mentioned that Ackerman film where a lot of it is looking out windows, and for me the impression I got is that it felt like it was made from the first person looking out at their environment.
JDR: The subjectivity was really important as well and in that because it is an essay film. The essay was a form of self-expression, which was more about documenting your attempt to describe the world and your relationship to it, rather than definitively writing about how the world is.
That idea was attractive to me because of the fragmentary nature of the shooting of the film, and also because of the limitations on doing something realistic. I wasn’t in Perth, I wasn’t going to do a fly-on-the-wall thing about my dad being sick, and neither would I really, because it’s not my sensibility, it’s too far away.
The essay form freed me up to express myself in fragments cinematically and to take detours into different registers, registers that were dreamlike and even to be a little meta and talk about the making of the film itself and films I perhaps thought of making but didn’t make.
The film was always going to be in motion and never settled in what it was and that resonated really well with the themes of migration, uprootedness, identity, and being Australian that I wanted to explore in the film.
FB: I felt a strong sense of place in this film, it’s cool to see another entry into that small canon of Inner West-based cinema.
JDR: Often I feel like there’s not a love of place in Australian films, oddly. There’s this sort of disconnect from place, which people will say has its root in non-Indigenous filmmakers not feeling comfortable here. That’s one way of describing it, and it’s an important critique, but whatever the case, I don’t believe that’s the only way to look at it.
I love the places I live in, and there are things I really love about them, and that’s kind of what I wanted to imbue my film with.
FB: Do you think Australian cinema is scared to embrace place as part of the film? It’s almost like they make a film in spite of the place.
JDR: Australian cinema, growing up, wasn’t something I associated with a love of place. Not like American cinema, which is filled with the love of everything from tenement blocks, in New York, to great ancient forests, to the Mojave Desert.
The place is so central in American cinema, and there’s a love of it, just in the way It’s photographed even if there are criticisms of who was there before and the power dynamics in the place. That’s still there, but there’s also just a love for the physicality of being in America.
That’s what I wanted my film to be like. I wanted to make this film that had an aesthetic beauty to it that just sort of luxuriated in a certain hour of the day as the light fades, the way that trains pass by my house, the desert out of the airplane window, and, just the spaces in the film, the architectural spaces.
FB: Entirely, I can really see that and it was really cool to be able to identify that spot in Newtown, that road along the train line.
JDR: I like that too. I love watching films and going, oh, okay, I know where that is, or I’ve been there and to see it presented through a lens, and a filmmaker’s eye just sort of does something different to it.
It’s like seeing a painting of a street, and you revisit the street. And you go, wow. It’s kind of not immortalized, but it’s kind of immortalized, for want of a better word, in the art.
I really like that loving connection because you usually don’t put a lens on something you hate. Usually, there’s something in it. Even if you don’t think it’s beautiful, what you like is maybe the beauty of the tension you see within it. I just wanted the film to be a bit of an embrace.
The Hidden Spring is playing at the Adelaide Film Festival this weekend.
Tickets are available here: https://adelaidefilmfestival.org/event/the-hidden-spring/
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Jason Di Rosso
Jason Di Rosso is ABC RN’s film critic, host of the weekly film show The Final Cut and a reviewer across a range of RN programs.
Before becoming RN’s chief film specialist, Jason spent six years as associate producer and reviewer on Movietime , a weekly show hosted by Julie Rigg. Outside the ABC, his writing on film and popular culture has appeared in GQ magazine and the Australian .
Jason’s background in film goes back to the 1990s, when he completed a degree in communications at Perth’s Curtin University. His first job was behind the camera as a production runner, driving actors in a mini-van for a short-lived TV series called Sweat . It sank without a trace, though it helped launch the career of a young WA actor called Heath Ledger.
The next few years saw Jason slowly drift from the film to radio, and he made features for RN’s Social History Unit, 360 documentaries and The Comfort Zone . Since returning to film by way of radio, he has interviewed some of cinema’s most important talents, from Isabelle Huppert to Mike Leigh.
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Writer-director Anthony Shim's delicate, precise approach makes a familiar story of immigrant exile glimmer with insight and feeling.
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It’s only the first of the many unforced, imperfect echoes that happen across the film’s expansive runtime, as though Shim is finding, from this far-off perspective, synchronicities that the characters themselves cannot be aware of. These resonances live, like so much of the film’s artfulness, in the graceful movement and constant, subtle reframing of Christopher Lew’s exemplary photography, which avoids overt manipulation and excessive cutting and instead allows conversations to play out in single, wide frames, and finds close-ups on the fly, as though the camera, too, were rootless.
After a clever ellipsis that happens between Dong-hyun as a kid futzing with his big owl-eye glasses and Dong-hyun (now Ethan Hwang) as a surly bleach-blond teenager putting in his blue contacts, the mother/son echoes become all the more poignant for the distance that has sprung up between them. While So-young, having just received the worst of all possible news, sways drunkenly in the embrace of her new Canadian-Korean beau (played by Shim himself), Dong-hyun staggers home bleeding after a fight at a party, but the way they are framed makes it all one mood. Time and again, this is how Shim gets around the dramatic difficulty of communicating the connection between such inherently undemonstrative, reserved characters. The camera, and Andrew Yong Hoon Lee’s minimal but gradually swelling score, express the emotions that mother and son hold so deliberately in check.
The beats of the immigrant drama — the new friendships and small triumphs of assimilation, as well as the humiliations and miscommunication of cultural otherness — are all here. So-young builds a sturdy life for herself and her son, that has all they could need, except perhaps an acknowledgement of where they came from. So when, in the final third, the vista changes as So-young and Dong-hyun go on a visit to Korea, it’s a resolve that is hardly unexpected but satisfies nonetheless, as though the film were finally taking a deep, freeing breath. “Riceboy Sleeps” is sedate and respectful and hardly reinvents the immigrant drama wheel. But in its soulful, expertly crafted simplicity it does ring with the sincerest and most moving of sentiments that a grown-up child could express to a beloved parent: I remember it all, and thank you.
Reviewed online, Paris. May 4, 2023. In Toronto Film Festival. Running time: 117 MIN.
- Production: (Canada) A Screen Media, Redbox Entertainment, Sphere Films presentation of a Lonesome Heroes production, in association with Kind Stranger Production and A Lasting Dose Productions. Producers: Anthony Shim, Rebecca Steele, Bryan Demore. Co-producer: Andrea Agur. Executive Producers: Matt Kerr, Charlie Kerr, Giuliana Bertuzzi.
- Crew: Director, writer: Anthony Shim. Camera:Christopher Lew. Editor: Anthony Shim. Music: Andrew Yong Hoon Lee.
- With: Choi Seung-yoon, Ethan Hwang, Dohyun Noel Hwang, Anthony Shim, Hunter Dillon, Jerina Son, Kang in Sung, Choi Jongryul, Lee Yong-nyeo, Emily Le. (English, Korean dialogue.)
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Life is seen through the eyes of a put-upon beast of burden in this beautifully photographed homage to Au Hasard Balthazar by the veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski
J erzy Skolimowski is the celebrated veteran director who first came to Cannes in 1972 with King, Queen, Knave starring Gina Lollobrigida and David Niven; now he has returned with a winter’s tale of a film, inspired by Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar from 1966. I’m not sure this is my favourite Skolimowski film, but it is engaging in many ways: beautifully photographed, sentimental and surreal in equal measure; and also stubborn – as stubborn as its hero – in its symbolism and stark pessimism.
Like Bresson, Skolimowski makes his lead a donkey, the beast that carried the Virgin Mary to Bethlehem and Jesus into Jerusalem. Skolimowski calls his animal “EO” – after its braying “eee-ohhh” sound. The place is present-day Poland, but the setting could almost be Europe at any time in the last few centuries. EO is being worked in a circus act but has to be let go because of legislation about using animals in this way. He winds up in a donkey sanctuary from which he is freed, then captured in the streets by a council worker for whose football team EO becomes a mascot. But then he is beaten by hooligans supporting the opposing team, captured by a gang trading in illicit horse- and donkey-meat, and finally rescued by a troubled young aristocrat whose haughty and devout mama (a tasty cameo for Isabelle Huppert) disapproves of her son’s louche gambling ways.
And all the time, EO observes and witnesses, his innate humility and dignity rising above crass human vanity and greed. Or, is that what is happening? The film invites us to ask if it is meaningful to attribute these characteristics to EO. He does not participate in any side of our moralising human comedy. The donkey maintains his innocence, but what choice does he have in that matter? How would a donkey without innocence behave? He is, after all, simply a beast of burden. His point of view and his consciousness are mysteries. But perhaps an alien life form, as far above humans as we are above donkeys, would regard us in the same way. And EO’s simple presence on screen is uncanny – this animal is not acting; it is being itself. But, then, perhaps we humans are deluding ourselves when we think that we can transform ourselves by the art of acting, or any other art.
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In a remarkable year in film, critic Jason Di Rosso picks out his five favourites, including a mainstream blockbuster and a few indie surprises. The...
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The Screen Show with Jason di Rosso. Series; Arts & Culture; The Screen Show. We bring you an informed look at screen culture. In an age of 'peak TV' where the world's best actors, producers and directors increasingly fluctuate between the small screen and the big, this show explores the best that both have to offer.
Jason Di Rosso is a filmmaker and critic, and the host of The Screen Show on ABC RN, the Australian public broadcaster's only weekly program dedicated to cinema and television. In a broadcast ...
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J erzy Skolimowski is the celebrated veteran director who first came to Cannes in 1972 with King, Queen, Knave starring Gina Lollobrigida and David Niven; now he has returned with a winter's ...
00:00. 'One Fine Morning', 'The Plains' and 'The New Boy' - Film with Jason Di Rosso. Life gets very complicated in a new French drama out this week called One Fine Morning, plus acclaimed ...
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