Siobhan Jackson
Australia °1970
research interests: practice research, artistic research, collaborative processes, cinema, screenwriting, Queerfeminist Theory, post-structuralism, filmmaking, Storytelling, failure, refusal, screen language, post qualitative inquiry
affiliation: School of Film and Television, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.
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Siobhan is a film lecturer, writer, director and researcher. She started out as a painter, and exhibited for a number of years, making endless paintings about the Wizard of Oz, and Dorothy Gale falling in love with the Scarecrow, and Glinda, the Good Witch doing bad things. And she loved it. But as much as she enjoyed painting/re-casting the screen creations of others, they began to crave developing their own film worlds and characters. So, enrolled in a Masters in Film and TV production.
After completing a suite of films as a student, they went on to write and direct a trilogy of short silent films, collectively entitled KILLING HER QUIETLY. They completed their first feature film, YOU CAN SAY VAGINA (collaboratively written and directed with Mischa Baka), in 2018. In 2024 they completed their second feature collaboration, SALTBUSH and then their first solo feature, as writer/director, a documentary, entitled, LOVE POEM.
When directing/writing/researching collaboratively, or alone, their work relies heavily on notions of refusal, failure and alternative approaches to developing story content and generating performance for the screen – embracing movement, improvisation, messy bodies and unconventional ‘texts’ to encourage, inspire and generate screen story, performance and knowledge.