Quote:
"Made in 1980-2, the twenty-three-minute video Influences of My Mother is ostensibly about Diamond's attempt to make an identity out of and for her mother, who died of cancer when Diamond was ten years old. As it is about her mother as an absence—as present only in photographs, the elusive memory of a ten-year-old girl, and memorabilia—the tape speaks to fundamental issues about identity as that which is produced from loss and from the remains of time ('How do you go about recreating a once living woman through whom to see yourself?')"
-- Susan Lord

Source:
Lord, Susan. "Activating History: Sara Diamond and the Women's Labour History Project." In Working On Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema, edited by Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. (p. 170)