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Sunday, Apr 1st, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Best Film Award, Tropfest 07: ‘An Imaginary Life’ (Steve Baker).
On April 7 Channel Nine, accompanied by the still-infuriating-after-all-these-years Richard Wilkins, screened the films from the finals of the Sony Tropfest 2007 short-film festival, which was held on February 18. Tropfest purports to showcase the work of ‘Australia’s emerging filmmakers’ and there’s a big focus on […]
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Monday, Feb 19th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Flyer for Northern Void.
Last night I attended the second (and last, for now) screening of Philip Brophy’s 50-minute film Northern Void, billed as a “live cinema performance” accompanied by the real-time sonics of Ph2 (Brophy and Philip Samartzis). Northern Void is set along Plenty Rd, in the northern Melbourne suburb of Preston — specifically a […]
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Thursday, Jun 22nd, 2006 at 3:12 pm
As a travel writer, I consider myself extremely fortunate to have made my acquaintance with Michel Houellebecq’s nasty, but exhilarating novel, Platform, which I’ve just re-read. It really goes to town on travel guidebooks. It makes even the most seemingly innocuous travel-writing phrase a cringe-worthy exercise in self-loathing, like the term “a good base camp” […]
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Wednesday, Oct 20th, 2004 at 12:03 am
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Nothing sorts memories from ordinary moments.
They claim remembrance when they show their scars.
CHRIS MARKER. ‘LA JETÉE.’
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The films of Chris Marker are often termed ‘essayist’, participating in a phenomenological play with deep roots in French intellectualism. Working within documentary and pseudo-documentary modes, they mimic the manner in which memory and desire flash from cell to cell […]
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Sunday, Aug 1st, 2004 at 3:44 am
review by Andres Vaccari
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One of the most exciting things about the digital age is the close collaboration of art and science in areas like the visual arts, animation, architecture and music. It is true that art and science have always been sisters (look at Leonardo DaVinci, for example). But with the arrival of the modern […]
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Friday, Jun 18th, 2004 at 9:36 pm
THE FOOTBALL FACTORY
Jonathan Cape
ISBN 0-224-04302-1
The Football Factory, John King’s début novel, charts the lives of a group of football hooligans in present-day London, England. It has been re-issued to coincide with the release of England Away, King’s most recent book and the third part of his loose trilogy (Headhunters was the second). Although The Football […]
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Wednesday, Aug 20th, 2003 at 4:17 pm
by Andrés Vaccari
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Retrospecto is an irregular series raking over the coals of the past… (originally published in Abaddon magazine)
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John Carpenter makes two kinds of film: brilliant ones and absolutely awful ones. They Live, fortunately, is one of the former. In this criminally underrated sci-fi classic, the evil aliens have surreptitiously invaded earth and camouflaged themselves […]
