pferguson | May 23, 2020
Three People Never Having Met Beneath the sky, the moon – the sun – this ground, this coast, valley, or ridge. Along the long, long trail that is our path through Gully Ravine – or our crest at Lone Pine. I return this day to wanderings across places of conflict and to now distant interests. […]
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Tags: Australia, Border Regiment, Charles Davies Vaughan DSO, Conflict, Dreamtime, Film History, Follow the Sun, Galipoli, Gully Ravine, Inscription, Lyrics, Nottinghamshire, Peter Hart Battlefield Tours, Peter Weir, Pink Farm Cemetery, Rainbows, Russell Crowe, Soundtracks, The Water Diviner, W Beach, Water, Xavier Rudd
pferguson | January 4, 2020
Reoccurring Imagery in Film Near the start of this New Year I turn again to films whose peninsular lands I have wandered. From Peter Weir’s Gallipoli, that galvanized my interest in film-making, to Russell Crowe’s The Water Diviner whose pilgrim father is a character to whom I relate. In Weir’s Gallipoli it is the runner, within Mark […]
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Tags: Archy Hamilton, Archy Hamilton aka Lascelles, Arthur Connor, Film History, Gallipoli, Joshua Connor, Locomotive, Mark Lee, Peter Weir, Pilgrim, Reoccurring Themes, Russell Crowe, Ryan Corr, Storytelling, The Water Diviner, Whirling Dervish, Windmill
pferguson | September 5, 2015
When Circumstances Keep Us Apart The other night I watched The Water Diviner…for the second time – a typical fate of mine when drawn into a story, removing myself away from the critics and enjoying someone’s vision. As I sat with my Rosemary I watched for her reactions to the words, images and soundtrack that […]
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Tags: Family, Fear of God Films, Film, Gallipoli, Great War, I can see it in his eyes, Kris Fogelmark, Love Was My Alibi, Photographs, Separation, Soundtracks, The Water Diviner, To Hold You in My Arms Again, Weddings, When Circumstances Keep Us Apart
pferguson | August 29, 2015
Finding Water – Finding Story When I was young, some forty years ago, I came to British Columbia and lived near a place that my maternal family had called home since the 1860s. Having lived in many places, across Canada and overseas, this new place of generational connection was foreign to me. Yet I wanted […]
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Tags: 16th Canadian Machine Gun Company, ANZACS, Collections, Exhibits, Family, Fear of God Films, Film, Film History, Gallipoli, Generations, Great War, Histories, Leadership, Magic, Passchendaele, Russell Crowe, Saving Private Ryan, Storytelling, The Light Horsemen, The Water Diviner