Carol Morley

Carol Morley’s films have been shown internationally in galleries, cinemas, festivals and on television, and have been described as “provocative films that cross boundaries between fact and fiction, exploring extraordinary things that happen to ordinary people” (BFI Southbank Catalogue). Since graduating from Central St Martins in 1993 with a first class honours degree in fine art film and video, she has received the Best Documentary Award at Melbourne International Film Festival, been nominated for a BAFTA and received a special Grierson Award. In 2003 was awarded an Arts Foundation Fellowship for Documentary Filmmaking. She is currently making the feature length film Dreams of a Life with producer Cairo Cannon and production company West Park Pictures West. Here she talks about her life, her influences and the about blending actuality and autobiography with her film The Alcohol Years – subject of an APEngine showcase.