When the Camera Stopped Rolling: giving Lilias Fraser the recognition she deserves

Lilias Fraser is a name all Australian film buffs should know – her daughter Jane Castle delivers a fitting tribute to a complicated woman.

Buried stories have a habit of unearthing themselves in unexpected ways.

You can probably guess, after watching the hauntingly mesmeric When the Camera Stopped Rolling. Composed entirely from archival footage, with multiple interviews left on the cutting room floor, this tribute to her mother’s work is sonorously narrated by Castle in a meditative fashion.

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Stephen A Russell is a Melbourne-based arts writer. His writing regularly appears in Fairfax publications, SBS online, Flicks, Time Out, The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and Metro magazine. You can hear him on Joy FM.