“Time Is Not a Story”: Grace Harper Brighouse Talks Family Archives and Upending Addiction Narratives With Her Personal Doc, ‘Dependence’

World-premiering at this year’s Camden International Film Festival, Grace Harper Brighouse’s Dependence is an astonishing feature debut from a British filmmaker who has been behind the camera since she was a child, documenting her close-knit family, whether they were celebrating a birthday or taking a car ride. Indeed, it’s through 30 years’ worth of her own home movies that Brighouse sifts, searching for clues in every frame. She’s on a Sisyphean mission to unravel the mystery that is her somewhat estranged father, a high-functioning addict whose substance abuse emotionally ravaged her entire family, the effects of which are still being felt as she picks up her camera and points it at him.

To read my interview visit Documentary magazine.