What the critics and festivals have written:
“Blisteringly inventive and visually out-there, the latest film from acclaimed Sydney film-maker Janet Merewether is nothing if not genre-shattering….The film offers a stimulating examination of illness, the aberrant body and social conformity from a colourfully personal perspective.”
(Lynden Barber – Director - Sydney Film Festival 2005)
“..This is a documentary with a difference. It’s more like a drama, an art film and Jabe is performing her life. It’s one of the most visually original films in the festival.”
(Julie Rigg ABC Radio National – ‘The Deep End’ programme – Sydney Film Festival Review 13.6.05)
“Jabe Babe is exemplary, inventive documentary filmmaking, a rich hybrid of imaginative projection and documentary reflection..It’s a great addition to the body of experimental work that Merewether has created over many years, a work to which she brings both her sense of humour and formal inventiveness…”
(Keith Gallasch – ‘Factual Fantasy’ – Realtime - RT 68 Aug/Sept 05 p18)
http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue68/7925
“Images are embedded in images in a tour de force of directorial imagination..”
(Frances Bonner – Brisbane International Film Festival)
“Inspired by films like American Splendor.. Errol Morris documentaries and Alice in Wonderland, the film is highly stylised and wildly imaginative, an extraordinary film for an extraordinary life..”
(Brisbane International Film Festival - BIFF Offline article - Aug 2004)
Scarlet Alliance Review http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/Reviews/jabebabe/
Jabe Babe – online link Friday March 3, 2006 London Australian Film Festival review Geoff Adams – Spink
BBC News website - Age & disability correspondent http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4763456.stm
The Age.com.au TV and Radio – Entertainment
Nicole Brady Nov 24 2005
http://www.theage.com.au/news/tv--radio/rising-above-it-all/2005/11/23/1132421675608.html
SMH Sydney Morning Herald TV and Radio Entertainment
‘High Roller’ by Jacqui Taffel Nov 28, 2005
http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/high-roller/2005/11/28/1133026386947.html?page=2
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