The Tyranny of the Unspoken: The Silences, Autoethnography and Mental Health

Childhood can be a trying time and, in the case of Margot Nash, whose father was afflicted with mental illness, the challenges proved even more difficult. Kit MacFarlane delves into the director's latest work and explores how her documentary embodies, not just an attempt to come to terms with a childhood suffocated by silence, but also a way to make sense of the self through film.

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