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Camouflage

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Camouflage

Most people's mums are mad. Mine's got schizophrenia.

8.0(2) 12/31/2002 0h 8m
Animation

Mixed animation and live action techniques tell the stories of those with a schizophrenic parent, childhood scenes in which everyday events gradually tip over into idiosyncratic behaviour and finally madness.

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Top Cast

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Lydia Pala

Elder Girl

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Alice Keane

Younger Girl

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Tom Wallis

Boy

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Naomi Seekings

Mother

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David Benson

Father

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Kirsten Peebles

Woman Invited

John Hannah

John Hannah

Male Guest

Directed by

Jonathan Hodgson

Production

Reviews

CinemaSerf

6/10

4/6/2026

The combination of styles here can be a bit confusing, discombobulating even, as the pace gathers in this quirky assessment of the effects of schizophrenia on members of their families, but I think it still works quite effectively. Using differing artistic and real-time techniques, we begin with behaviour that is more unusual before descending into more of a maelstrom that lacks much by way of rationale, balance or reason. Jonathan Hodgson has chosen a tricky topic for his work. There is quite a fine line that has to be drawn - artistically and figuratively - and I think he manages to craft something that does illustrate the difficulties faced by those on the periphery of this illness, without over-dramatising but by simply presenting us with a slowly deteriorating scenario for us to inter

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