Gradually Oma’s care became overwhelming. Her independence decreased, and as we were at home all the time, she relied on us more.” In the beginning, both Megan and Jason could still leave the house and go to work, but in 2020, Megan says, “Routine went out the window. ‘It felt like a nirvana at the start, living in a multi-generational household’ … Oma, Levi and Jason van Genderen. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning “We didn’t know what was going to happen to Oma and what was going to happen with our marriage.” We were diarising the evolution of family at that time,” says Jason. But what we wanted was for the audience to feel that they were living in our house. “What we were wanting to achieve with this film was not always pretty. In his new documentary, Everybody’s Oma, we see Jason and Megan fight over whether Oma should keep her cat, Oma becoming increasingly frail and having falls, and the 24/7 reality of being a carer. Initially, he says, “it was a way of capturing moments that we could share with Oma, so she could remember things”.īut the footage morphed from being a memory aid to a documentation of his mother’s increasing struggle and the toll it took on his family life. Jason van Genderen, a film-maker on New South Wales’s Central Coast, didn’t realise when he started filming his mother’s life that the resulting footage would be so exposing and heartwrenching.
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