RELEASE DATE DVD: 2011
Mother of Rock: The Life and Times of Lillian Roxon is another film featuring at the Melbourne International Film Festival and supported by the MIFF Premiere Fund.
The film is a documentary about the life of Lillian Roxon (Aunt of our current health minister, Nicola Roxon), who was seen as Australia's first feminist and noted by others as a "Bitch" and a "Gossip". A liberated woman, Lillian moved to New York early in her career, employed as a New York correspondent for "The Sydney Morning Herald" and working under "shock jock", Derryn Hinch.
Lillian became very influential in the underground music scene via her time spent "hanging out" at the infamous Max's Kansas City club, where all the rising stars rock stars congregated and came to be "seen". Lillian was also known for her promotion of other famous Australians and played host to them when visiting New York. It was with humour that many of her peers had recollections of Lillian promoting her newest Australian visitor as the "best" in their field. Lillian famously played hostess to Germaine Greer early in her career and at a time when Germaine was gaining notoriety in Australia.
Lillian had a fascination with rock music and she believed it to be a powerful influence on society, which at this time was unrecognised. As homage too the importance of "rock" music, Lillian wrote and published the "Rock Encyclopedia", an A - Z of all the influential musicians in the music scene of this time and why this was so.
The doco itself is peppered with interviews from Lillian's peers such as Germaine Greer, Danny Fields and Iggy Pop, in an attempt to understand this early pioneer of rock journalism.
- Knowing little about this character, this was an entertaining and informative doco.
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