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<\/p>\nTorquay-based poet, songwriter, storyteller and dreamer, Camille Barr, better known by her stage name The Last Folk Singer, has teamed up with Nicky Buckley to create a new music video which focuses on gender equality.<\/p>\n
The music video, Because I Was Born A Girl, starts with a young girl and boy on a race track on an equal footing, but slowly and surely the young girl is held back as she is given notes with chores, criticisms and disparaging remarks. With each note, the girl takes a step back from where she had started.<\/p>\n
The music video was made by a predominantly female production team led by first-time director, former television presenter Nicky.<\/p>\n
When the Surf Coast local received an email about the project asking if she would be interested in coming on board she thought it sounded interesting but was also a little surprised.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI looked at it and said that looks really interesting but I\u2019m not sure why you thought of me as a director,\u201d Nicky said.<\/p>\n
But after catching up with Camille and processing it, she thought that she could do it after all.<\/p>\n
\u201cReally with the type of work that I\u2019ve done for 30 years, I\u2019ve self-directed myself, I\u2019m always jumping behind the camera and seeing how things look and offering suggestions and changing things so I took it as a challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I thought let\u2019s just run with it and see how we go,\u201d Nicky said.<\/p>\n
The music video which was shot in Geelong and the Surf Coast was released on International Women\u2019s Day earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Camille said she wanted to steer away from the narrative of men against women and focus on cultural indoctrination.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a cultural issue, change is challenging for both men and women,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Camille said it can be confronting to realise that we are all part of it and all need to make changes.<\/p>\n
Nicky said that for every song there are different interpretations but this song resonated with her after growing up in a household with four brothers.<\/p>\n
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\u201cFor me it was a line in the first note the young girl hands out in the video \u2018sweetheart can you hang out the washing?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Nicky said she would often do the chores while the boys were out kicking the footy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith mum not even knowing what she was doing she was making me do all these jobs like helping with the folding, the cooking, the cleaning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nicky also knows first-hand the difficulties gender inequality causes in the workplace \u2013 when she wore an evening dress while pregnant in the nineties, countless bottles of ink were spilt critiquing her decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople were up in arms\u2026 now women work right up like I did, people don\u2019t look at it like it\u2019s wrong, it\u2019s normal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there are big changes coming all the time and it\u2019s about keeping it going, keep taking one step forward towards equality so it becomes normal for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watch \u2018Because I Was Born A Girl\u2019 at thelastfolksinger.com<\/p>\n
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Torquay-based poet, songwriter, storyteller and dreamer, Camille Barr, better known by her stage name The Last Folk Singer, has teamed up with Nicky Buckley to create a new music video which focuses on gender equality. The music video, Because I Was Born A Girl, starts with a young girl and boy on a race track […]<\/p>\n