Archive for November, 2003
Sunday, November 30th, 2003
Trevor Blainey: Retroactively Speaking
Trevor Blainey is enjoying himself. In 2003, the former accountant’s first film as producer, Matthew Saville’s Roy Hollsdotter Live, won everything in sight, with awards for best screenplay, best short film and best cinematography. But filmmaking in Australia is notoriously tough, and while awards give off a fuzzy glow, they don’t automatically confer the green […]
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2003
What If? An Interview with Mark Atkin
still from The What If? Man, dir. Mark Atkin
Mark Atkin is a Melbourne editor working in film and television. His first feature as director, The What If? Man: The Science Fictional Life of Peter Nicholls, looks at the life and career of Peter Nicholls, science fiction critic, anthologist, reviewer, author, filmmaker, collector and public speaker. […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Film, Melbourne, Interviews by Simon Sellars
Monday, November 17th, 2003
Giant Shade: Cardigan Press
interview by Tasmin Waby
Image by Daniel New
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Cardigan Press is a small press operating out of Melbourne. Founded in 2001, Cardigan aims to promote experiments in short-story writing as an antidote to mainstream publishing constraints. The collective made big waves with the release of their first anthology, Machines Will Not Give Change, in 2002, and have […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Literature, Melbourne, Interviews by Tasmin Waby
Wednesday, November 5th, 2003
Matthew Saville: Bleak Is A Really Nice Place
Matthew Saville is the writer/director of Roy Hollsdotter Live, one of the more successful of the recent batch of 50-minute short features funded by the Australian Film Commission, SBS Independent and Film Victoria. Starring standup comic Darren Casey and comedy titan John Clarke, it’s shot around Fitzroy and North Melbourne. It’s a darkly humorous tale […]
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Sunday, November 2nd, 2003
G4 Noise Resolved? Apple Caves in to Public Pressure
Do-it-yourself soundproofing. Photo: www.g4noise.com
It begins with a slow cycling noise, the heavy drone of massive turbines gearing up to complete some Herculean task. This sonic undertow – insistent and full of ominous bottom-end harmonics – ensures that writing my notes is a horrendous, teeth-gnashing exercise. Disorienting stress extends to nausea at the root of my […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Features, Sound, Interviews by Simon Sellars
Sunday, November 2nd, 2003
The Shadow & The Swarm
by Andrés Vaccari
Image by Carla Gottgens
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Andres Vaccari’s tale of fear, madness, the unfathomable nature of existence and perception and, of course, the End of the World – as seen through the eyes of an insect. Stare into the void with this modern existential classic…
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It comes with no warning, shadowing the earth like the wings of […]
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Saturday, November 1st, 2003
Bike Story
by Rebecca Cannon
Rebecca Cannon was recently knocked off her bicycle on a Melbourne road. She wants sweet killer revenge. Strap on your helmet and get ready to rock.
It was a beautiful, sun soaked Sunday afternoon. I was on my bike waiting with the traffic at the lights, on my way to play tennis with B_____. […]
