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Dr John Hookham |
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Lecturer, Film and Television |
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PhD, Queensland University of Technology. BA Hons MA, University of Witwatersrand. Diploma Art and Technique of Film Making, London International Film School.
John Hookham is an academic and filmmaker. He has worked extensively in the film and television industries in the USA, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
John’s films have been screened at the Cannes, Montreal and Goteburg festivals as well as at the National Film Theatre, London and La Cinematheque, Paris. He has directed, produced and photographed a range of productions including feature films, documentaries, music videos, magazine inserts, newsreels and ethnographic films.
An experienced screenwriter with a number of fictional and documentary credits, John has adapted the work of Doris Lessing, Andre Brink and Dan Jacobson for the screen.
His most recent film is My Lovers Both, a feature length autobiographical documentary. It is a record of two journeys the filmmaker makes back to his native South Africa in which he confronts aspects of his past. The journeys offer a means to explore a personal history around the experiences of immigration, displacement and exile.
Dr Hookham is a graduate of the University of Witwatersrand and the London Film School. He completed his PhD at Queensland University of Technology. His thesis, Lives Are Led: Autobiographical Film and the New Documentary argues that contemporary autobiography deals with sites of trauma and challenges dominant narratives of official memory. The dissertation explores how personal histories have expanded the documentary tradition by embracing fictional strategies and moving towards increased subjectivity and introspection.