Jackson, D., 2014.

This Is Not My House (2014, 15 mins, colour, HD digital video, stereo)

'This Is Not My House' is a film portrait of my father and was initiated after news he had sold his house in Malta to return to England after living there for 24 years. The project started as photographs made with him five years previously, just after my Maltese mother died. What affected me most after her death was the realisation I would never hear her voice again. I had photographs but no recordings of her. All gone. As a filmmaker I felt an obligation not to let the same thing happen with my father. So when he sent me an email to say he was leaving Malta I knew this visit to his house would be my last. My film serves as an emotional inventory of my father and his house of 24 years at 134 Carlo Manche Street; an autoethnography in pictures, if you like.