Kaye Mortley
Kaye Mortley is Australian by birth, and since 1981 has been an independent radio documentary maker, based in Paris, producing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, France Culture and for other state broadcasting companies in Europe and elsewhere.
Among her academic awards, she holds a Docteur-ès-lettres from the University of Strasbourg. Her radio features have won numerous international awards, including recently the 2006 Grand Prix de L’IRIB (documentary) for Going Back, and in 2005, a Prix Italia for her documentary, A Stranger in Alsace, She has taught and given seminars in Sydney, Helsinki, Stockholm, Paris and Arles.
She describes her interests as including “crafting real sound into something one might call ‘fiction’”, “making radio films, mind movies” and “listening to ‘angels passing’ – those moments where – all of a sudden – a silence falls.” One of her favourite quotations is by the film maker, Robert Bresson: “Le reel brut ne fera jamais du vrai” (“Raw reality does not make for truth.”)
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