Checking One's Levels
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Short Award, selected by Final Round Judges Stacia Brown, Sharon Mashihi, and Justine Tobiasz.
2022-23 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition2023 / Talia Augustidis / Eleanor McDowall / Short Cuts, Falling Tree Productions and BBC Radio 4, GBR
Winner of the 2022-23 Third Coast/RHDF Competition Best Documentary: Short Award, selected by Final Round Judges Stacia Brown, Sharon Mashihi, and Justine Tobiasz.
DESCRIPTION
Checking One's Levels is a quiet piece about memory and loss and porridge. It features recordings made over several months by Talia, a part-time caregiver and aspiring audio producer who is looking after a woman with Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
Talia and the woman were conducting recordings for a separate project, but each day as Talia set up the microphone, she asked the woman what she had for breakfast to check the levels. For audio producers, it’s a throwaway question; the answer doesn’t matter. But for the woman, the question held a deeper resonance.
This work was originally featured in the 2022-23 Third Coast Competition Showcase, a new way of celebrating Award-Winners, Finalists & Judges.
Full Credits
Talia Augustidis (Producer), Eleanor McDowall (Executive Producer)
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Talia Augustidis (She/Her) is an audio producer and community organiser.
Eleanor McDowall makes audio documentaries, zines about the radio, podcasts and occasionally writes sound captions for films.
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