Award-winning film director Mela Hilleard is to showcase her photographic work at the Dimbola Museum in an exhibition that starts this weekend. Chairman of the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust, Dr Brian Hinton will formally open the exhibition on Saturday 31st August at 16:00. Mela was born in Poland and her family was forcibly moved from Lviv, after WWII. She says:
“I was raised on longing, for the lost paradise, for the time which does not exist seeking refuge in the world of art, at first theatre and later in photography and filmmaking. I became interested in breaking conventions, thinking more in terms of poetry, always following my feelings and intuition. I like when things have their own unspoken history, imperfections, reflections, the crumbles of memories and dreams. “Being like a collector of eternal appearance; light is beginning and end of everything to me – the inner light of every person, light in the room, light of the past moment, waiting for the light… “I am working now on developing a new project: ‘From life. Following in the footsteps of Julia Margaret Cameron’. JMC life becomes a parallel story told through filmmaking and photographic eyes of mine binspired by her, in the 21st century, woven like separate strands of hair into one plait.”
