Tuesday 3 February 2009

Home Video's 1 and 2: 'Home and Away', 2006, UK



Growing up in the UK in the 1980's, I often used to watch the popular Australian soap operas, Neighbours and Home and Away on the TV at tea time. A decade or two down the line, I decided to re-play those (tea) times casting my parents and I as the singers of soap opera. Gazing directly into each other's eyes, my parents and I sing the theme tune, claiming the words and meanings for ourselves. Between England and Australia, between parent and child, between life and death there are yearnings, yearnings for that old belonging; oh the years, the miles between us.

© Kate Rowles. 2006