I do think ultimately it has brought us together, aside from my dad.” I at first was trying to bring people together, and I could tell, especially between my sister and my aunt, there was going to be a climax to their conflict. When she died, our family at first realized that we were far too distant, but her death being left unsolved created this trust between people who are supposed to love each other unconditionally. “My mom was one of six and was the person who was the glue between a lot of familial barriers. And yet despite the fear of exploiting his family and their stories, Hamburg found that the project actually united them, especially in the final episode of the series. Through the years, he felt like a double agent, as he didn’t reveal to many about his work on the project. And I think that was something really important to me, to not attach myself to one scenario.” I think something that really became clear to me-it comes back to that fear of exploiting people in my family who are participating-is that everybody has skeletons in the closet, the conflicts that happen in our lives and our responses to them, and it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a murderer. Playing the game of numbers and statistics. Because I think that’s often what goes wrong in initial investigations. “I have been really careful not to have a hunch. The documentary was a source for discovering Barbara.”īut given that documentaries are often supposed to be objective, Hamburg tried to separate himself from having confirmation bias when it came to the murder investigation. I never got to know my mom as a human being. “I didn’t even know about the gifting tables. Working on the project shed light on what would become important sections of the documentary. I realized I need to invite the audience in and my goal became giving proper weight to a question like, ‘Did you kill my mom?’ That became our mission statement moving forward.” Getting to Know BarbaraĪs Hamburg said, Murder on Middle Beach became not only a way of trying to figure out what happened to his mother, but also a way of getting to know her. True crime, as a subgenre, has a tendency to fetishize brutal crimes and characterize real people. “My biggest fear was creating something exploitive. Hamburg remarked that he can see the evolution of his filmmaking through the series, where it starts as amateurish, trying to interview as many people as possible, and then starts to hone in on something really intentional with a “fly on the wall” style of filmmaking. And after asking questions, I realized I was grieving someone I didn’t know, and I became obsessed with that.” I saw it as an opportunity to immortalize her, because at that point I was really fearful that I was going to lose her memory or my memory of her. So when I was in the documentary class, it was the first time that I had divulged to my classmates that my mom had died. “I didn’t want to be the kid whose mom was murdered.
MADISON HAMBURG SERIES
I have a lot of questions that are still unanswered.” ‘Did You Kill My Mom?’ Courtesy of HBOīack in 2010, after his mother died, Hamburg took a year off, dealing with addiction and grief, before attending the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), where he first started what would become the HBO documentary series in a Documentary 101 class. “The last time I talked to my dad is on camera, in the last episode. The series captivated audiences with its real-life twists and turns, culminating in the final episode with Hamburg’s heartbreaking conversation with the main suspect in the murder: his father. Hamburg’s HBO documentary, Murder on Middle Beach, might be the ultimate form of coping, as it tracks his mother’s life before she was tragically murdered in 2010.
MADISON HAMBURG HOW TO
“As a kid, not knowing how to process loss, grief, or divorce, I got lost in filming everything. “It’s sort of been the thing I’ve always been good at or had an aptitude for,” said Hamburg of filmmaking. Madison Hamburg’s parents, Jeffrey and Barbara Hamburg, gave him his first camera on Christmas Day when he was 11 years old, the day after they told him they were getting divorced. Awards Daily talks to Madison Hamburg, director of the HBO documentary Murder on Middle Beach, which follows Hamburg’s attempt to find out what happened to his mother, who was murdered in 2010.
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