Heretica: Closing the visibility gap and opening up opportunities
Heretica is built to close the visibility gap, and open up opportunities to connect and create with other filmmakers and creatives, those who didn’t have access to before. 0:0…
Laura Brogan Browne on starting the conversation about grooming with the powerful short film Allegedly
Multi-hyphenate talent Laura Brogan Browne is the voice behind the powerful short film Allegedly, an impactful story about Clover (Bailey Spalding), a high school graduate who participates in an anony…
Tony Jones on his searing documentary Sentient
Unpacking Oi, Aussie voices, and queer identity on screen with Sophie Serisier & Laneikka Denne
For regular readers of the Curb..., you'll no doubt be familiar with the admiration and respect that I have for Laneikka Denne and the cohort of filmmakers and storytellers they've worked with…
Dean Spanley: One Moment You are Running Along, the Next You Are No More; To Lose a Dog is To Know Grief
Powered by JustWatch This piece was originally published on 2 September 2020 and is being shared again after the news of the passing of Sam Neill. Sam's filmography is full of diverse per…
Brandon Daley on gambling your anxiety away with his acidic comedy $Positions
Brandon Daley's acidic comedy $Positions has been compared to the Safdie brothers Uncut Gems with the two sharing a level of anxiety-inducing symbiosis as they follow characters who embark on a vo…
Alana Hunt on mining the history of Western Australia through archives with Displacement and Replacement: A Remixed Narrative of Western Australia
Alana Hunt is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores history through a forensic approach to research. Her work mines the history of Australia, often utilising archival material to navigate the…
Balancing Identities: Vonne Patiag on the lingering weight of his short film Homo
Vonne Patiag has been forging a path in film and TV as a writer, director, and actor on shows like Halal Gurls and The Unusual Suspects, and films like Here Out West, Too Many Ethnics, and his new sho…
Sustained domestic abuse makes for a cruel and exhausting Evil Dead franchise entry
There’s something fundamentally grotesque about Vaniček’s vision that is obnoxious rather than menacing.…
e-Mum Director Jess Londono on motherhood in the age of AI
Filmmaker Jess Londono's short film e-Mum is a slightly satirical, completely engaging exploration on motherhood in the age of AI. Emma lives a solitary life with no partner or kids, a point of co…
Sophia Wright-Mendelsohn on sharpening her claws in Penny Lane is Dead
We've all seen, or we've all met, a Kat.…
Kristen Stewart and Imogen Poots on The Chronology of Water and embodied memories
Lidia does describe immediately that this experience that we're about to receive is a gift from her. It feels literary right off the bat and it's chaotic and nonlinear and fractured.…