"I Am Not A TV Show"

Film & Video

Vol 13 no 1, 1993

Special issue on film and video. Guest editor Annette Blonski. Examines independent practice in the 1990s - sexuality and ethnicity, postmodernity, indigenous work, festivals, short films, survival on a low or no budget and electronic art. Includes SCAN+ Volume 4 1993 Special Supplement edited by John Conomos on Electronic Media Arts.

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Author: Ms Marion Benjamin, feature

"I am not a TV show, this is not a TV show." These are the oft-spoken words of Tony Tjamu, Chairperson of the Mutitjulu Community at Uluru (Ayers Rock) in the Pitjantjatjara Lands of Central Australia. Their repetition reveals something of the exasperation born of the visibility of being Aboriginal in a predominantly white Australia.

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Articles in this issue

Editorial: Film and Video
Feature: "I Am Like You, I Am Different" - Beyond Ethnicity, Becoming Asian-Australian
Feature: "I Am Not A TV Show"
Feature: "Just Trust The Text, Don't Colour It"
Feature: A Tale of Reproduction and Dependency
Feature: Against 'Neofuturism': Women Artists in Technological Media
Feature: Aleksi Vellis
Feature: Brother Can You Spare a SP Betacam
Feature: Cinema or Death
Feature: Digital Art
Feature: Domestic Noir Night Out
Feature: Independent Distribution and Exhibition
Feature: Lesbian Independent Cinema and Queer Theory
Feature: Memory and Image: The Multiculturalism in Film Project
Feature: Monica Pellizari's Short Black Look at the Italian-Australian Experience
Feature: More Bangs for Bucks: Male Sexuality and Violence in Australian Film
Feature: Museum Screen Dreams
Feature: One Way Street
Feature: Perplexities: Experimenta 1992
Feature: Redemptive Moments Through Utter Despair: The Films of Brian McKenzie
Feature: Selected Shorts: Oppositionality, Postmodernity and the Australian Short Film
Feature: The 7th International Video Festival
Feature: The End of Independence? Women's Film and Video in the 1990s
Feature: The Last Days of Chez Nous: Love Stories and Girls' Blouses
Feature: TV Eye: Cinema in the Age of Video
Feature: Who Told You We Wanted To Make Our Own TV?
Feature: Wild: Beyond the Deconstruction
Feature: Wizards of Oz: Into the 90s - Between Documentary and Fiction
Review: A Golden Threat: Feminisms
Review: Colonial Patterns Repeated: Robert Harrison
Review: Come Again: Aldo Lacobelli
Review: Delayed Voyage: George Popperwell
Review: Floral Tributes: The Flower
Review: Journey by Proxy
Review: Pretty as a Picture: Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era
Review: The Pure and The Impure: Shaun Kirby
Review: Transformation of the Real: Constantine Koukias and Ann Wulff