Edith Gibson has 3000 Dolls (2019)

Edith Gibson invites you into her suburban home to meet her favourites and "the doll that started it all". A tour of her modest two-bedroom house reveals her dedication with an avalanche of dolls bursting from every nook and cranny. The lounge is where Edith crochets doll clothes whilst watching TV from a puffy lazy-boy recliner, the spare room with tiered shelves stacked high with characters and the dining room re-purposed as a sewing and craft space. Edith offers a tutorial on what to do when you acquire a doll who is without knickers, fashioning a lacey pair for a young lady. Edith restores dolls back to glory and gives them new life by naming them and designing new outfits. Her best offerings have ribbons won in the local doll show. Some doll restoration requires extreme measures as Edith shows you with back alley surgical precision how she gruesomely replaces a baby doll's blinking eye. Using tools she re-purposes and creates herself, boiling water and mustering all of her strength, she gives her patient lively fresh new peepers. Edith curates a doll showcase to display the variety of her collection from dancers, oddities, barbies, the realistic and the cartoony. Edith's skills in maintaining these dolls extend to resewing their hair, human hair being ideal. Director Daisy offers a partition of her long hair to be cut by Edith and saved for a doll in need.