Archive for June, 2003

Friday, June 20th, 2003

Adam Elliot: Urban Eccentric

This is the full version of an interview that was published in various forms in the Age newspaper and RealTime magazine. Bear in mind that I interviewed Adam prior to his Oscar win for Harvie Krumpet. Neither of us had any idea of what was to unfold over the next few months, and to see […]

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19 Comments » - Posted in Animation, Melbourne, Interviews by Simon Sellars

Thursday, June 12th, 2003

Kill ‘Em All: An Interview with Philip Brophy

Still from Body Melt, dir. Philip Brophy
Philip Brophy has done it all. He’s a film sound designer who worked most recently on Mallboy (2000); a composer whose most recent release was The Cavern of Deep Tones (1999) on his own Sound Punch label; a conference director for “Cinesonic”, an annual international conference on sound in […]

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6 Comments » - Posted in Film, Melbourne, Sound, Interviews by Nat Bates

Wednesday, June 4th, 2003

Project Dumpling

by Simon Sellars & Anna Hyde
The discovery of gold in 1851 attracted Chinese immigration to Victoria, Australia on a large scale. The small Chinese community first occupied Celestial Ave in the heart of Melbourne, providing for the needs of the diggers – lodgings en route, food, equipment and medicine – while Little Bourke St became […]

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3 Comments » - Posted in Food, Features, Melbourne by Simon Sellars