Richard Crawley spent decades recording himself and his family – and now his son James has turned the camera on him to understand why, in his documentary Volcano Man
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The first photo Richard Crawley ever took was a family portrait, when he was only a boy: a blurry black-and-white picture of his parents and siblings, frozen in time. It’s the kind of forgettable photo others might throw out, but for Crawley, now 71, it was the beginning of the rest of his life.
Over the following decades, he captured about 400 hours of footage of everything that made up his life in Victoria, Australia – house moves, holidays, school pickups, pets, renovations. His main subjects were his wife Carol (who “tolerated” the filming) and his son James. Sometimes his inspirations were odd. “There’s the cutlery!” he proclaims, yanking open the drawer, in a moment of surviving footage.
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The first photo Richard Crawley ever took was a family portrait, when he was only a boy: a blurry black-and-white picture of his parents and siblings, frozen in time. It’s the kind of forgettable photo others might throw out, but for Crawley, now 71, it was the beginning of the rest of his life.
Over the following decades, he captured about 400 hours of footage of everything that made up his life in Victoria, Australia – house moves, holidays, school pickups, pets, renovations. His main subjects were his wife Carol (who “tolerated” the filming) and his son James. Sometimes his inspirations were odd. “There’s the cutlery!” he proclaims, yanking open the drawer, in a moment of surviving footage.
- 8/9/2022
- by Sian Cain
- The Guardian - Film News
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