Film and culture. Not content.
When I was quite young a teacher related the story of the practice in some Aboriginal groups known as the “Pointed bone also known as “Kurdaitcha”. The accused person would have a bone pointed at them…
Four years after winning the Palme d’Or for Titane, French filmmaker Julia Ducournau returned to the Cannes Film Festival with Alpha, a haunting and unexpectedly tender meditation on grief, generation…
Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio uses Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ as one of its musical motifs. Cesare (Tommaso Ragno) the patriarch of the large Catholic Grazaidei family spends his money on phonograph rec…
Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab is more than documentary, more than fiction, more than re-enactment, and more than a dramatisation of the calls received by the Palestinian Red Crescent So…
Khoosat’s fable exposes an ugly truth: the regularity with which women are expected to absorb male damage in marriages throughout the subcontinent. It’s an indictment of a culture that mistakes endurance for virtue.…
This is going to be a two-part essay. The first part is me exploring my lifelong connection to The Bride of Frankenstein—where she comes from, why she has lingered in my imagination for decades, and h…
Dreams is a film that looks stunning but feels utterly lifeless. Michel Franco clearly knows how to capture beauty—especially in ballet—but all the visual polish in the world can’t make up for a story…
“This is about nostalgia,” says Mindy Meeks-Martin (Jasmine Savoy Brown) to a group of frightened teens trying to understand what motivates the newest incarnation(s) of Ghostface in their bucolic home…
A pulsing red glow slowly illuminating a rundown motel bedroom. A couple, physically close, yet so emotionally distant from one another. Once Ethereal follows a young couple, Ollie and Liv, through…
Filmmaker Jordan Giusti's Floodland is an impactful documentary that takes audiences to the flood-prone landscape of Lismore, NSW. Thousands of people call the region home, and yet, due to t…
Sophie Hyde's films have often explored identity, self-realisation, and the path to finding your place in this messy, mucked up world. 52 Tuesdays sees a child growing to understand the gend…
Haydn Green has been the creative force of Hear My Eyes, a sonic-visual, hybrid experience which blends film and music in creatively intriguing and boundary pushing ways. As the founder and arti…