This ‘double’ film imagines the correspondence between writer Pamela Carter’s two grandmothers, Chia Miau Lang in Singapore and Phyllis Carter in Lancaster. Both were born around the turn of the 20th century but never met one another in real life.

Carter explores colonial heritage and mixed-race identity by offering two digital journeys using photographs inherited from her parents. The title of the project takes its name from the optical illusion in which a single image can be interpreted as a duck or a rabbit but you can’t ever see both at once.

Creative Team
Director, writer & narrator: Pamela Carter
Digital filmmaker: Christine Urquhart
Sound Designer: Nick Powell

With thanks to: Rhys Williams, Julie Ellen, Stewart Laing, and Dom Bilkey at the Association of Sound Designers.

DUCK RABBIT – PROVENANCE

An essay to accompany the film, read it here