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“There are so many layers to this film as art, life and love collide,” says executive producer, Celia Tait of Artemis Media. You know, these little gems, like a beautiful natural coloured leaf that you would pick up and say, ‘Wow isn’t that beautiful’ and it just happens to be going down a river – and that section’s gone.” And now all of that is just slowly flittering away… like leaves on a stream: they just disappear. Says Leon of Moira in the film: “She was so fast, so incredibly acute with everything she did. “It’s a fitting tribute to mum and a reminder that this film is a love story,” Nia says. The film follows Leon creating an artwork for Moira: his “Etching for Moi” unfolds on screen. Nia films family gatherings, the opening of Leon’s retrospective by the Hon Julie Bishop and recollections by family friend, performer Tim Minchin.
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The documentary tracks Leon and Moira’s daily lives. Nia Pericles (writer/director/narrator) with family friend Tim Minchin. I wanted it to be playful and funny and a story I hope many people will relate to.” “I never wanted to make a film about dementia that was depressing. “At its heart, Storm in a Teacup is an intimate story of a family dealing with big change,” Nia says. Now Leon juggles his role as artist, husband and carer. She distributed his works to galleries and collectors around the nation, while managing a team of art staff, a framing business and various curatorial roles – as well as being Leon’s creative counsel. Until 2009, Moira managed the business side of Leon’s work as an artist. Moira started developing memory loss about 10 years ago, when she was only 59. “My aim was to record dad’s retrospective, while simultaneously witnessing the impact of advancing dementia on my mum, Moira,” she says. She takes director, writer and narrator credits on the film. When her father, Perth painter and printmaker Leon Pericles, mounted a 50-year retrospective of his work in 2018, Nia set the cameras rolling. Fast forward 30 years and she has spent more than two decades working as a producer, director and writer on shows like Bondi Rescue and Getaway, as well as The Secret Life of Death (SBS), Felicity’s Mental Mission (ABC) and Exhumed (ABC).īut Nia’s family members were her very first subjects, and in the documentary Storm in a Teacup – screening on the ABC during Dementia Action Week* – they are her subjects again.Īlthough Nia has always filmed her mum, her dad and her brother, it’s the first time she’s made something about them for public consumption. “As a teenager, I dreamed of working in the media,” Nia says. Her time as an observational documentary filmmaker had begun. Family holidays were never the same after Nia Pericles was given a video camera by her dad when she turned 12.
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