The End of Independence? Women's Film and Video in the 1990s

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Unfettered actions: Sportification, playgrounds and public art
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David Cross

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'The work that art does': Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation
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Abigail Moncrieff

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Yours truly, The Department of Homo Affairs
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Jessie Boylan

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City of Unley 3
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First Nations museum memorials: Daniel Boyd and Yhonnie Scarce
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Erin Vink

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Counter-monuments: Challenging distorted colonial histories through public art and memorials
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Transformative communities: Curation and care
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Rayleen Forester

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Guildhouse
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Blue skies, blood moon
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Daniel Mudie Cunningham

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A close-up of Amazon Acres: Helen Grace
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Fiona Kelly McGregor

Published 25 August 2021

Independent cinema may have been diverse in form, but its practitioners had in common a position of difference and marginality, working outside the mainstream and in opposition to it.

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TV Eye: Cinema in the Age of Video
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Leon Marvell

In 1993 in Australia less than 2 per cent of the population attends the cinema yet over 90 percent of households own a VCR....

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Independent Distribution and Exhibition
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Paul Kalina

In the decades prior to the expansion of art-house cinemas and television programming, 'independent distribution and exhibition' denoted a more specific activity than it does in the 1990s.

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A Golden Threat: Feminisms
Review
David Bromfield

Exhibition review Feminisms
Curated by Niki Miller
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Western Australia
November 1 - 28 1992

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Wild: Beyond the Deconstruction
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To begin this discussion of Ross Gibson's new film 'Wild' it may be useful to trace its origins to his 1984 film 'Camera Natura'. The earlier film employed an essay mode to deconstruct the discourses around non-Aboriginal imaging of the landscape.

Published March 1993
"I Am Not A TV Show"
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Marion Benjamin

"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.

Published March 1993
Floral Tributes: The Flower
Review
Peter Hill

Exhibition review The Flower
Curated by Paul Zika
Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts
Hobart Tasmania

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Selected Shorts: Oppositionality, Postmodernity and the Australian Short Film
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John McConchie

Despite my distrust of the postmodern, the possibility of disruption, the disturbance of vision that postmodernity is capable of providing within the cultural framework needs to be investigated. That such disturbances fail to deliver the most popular short films may be because they unsettle the comfortable fictions with which we seek to live....

Published March 1993
Museum Screen Dreams
Feature
Gordon Du Rich

Sydney's new Museum of Contemporary Art has actively integrated film, TV and videos into its programs since opening in 1991.

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A Tale of Reproduction and Dependency
Feature
Annabelle Sheehan

The interface between film and video education and the Independent film and video production.

Published March 1993
Brother Can You Spare a SP Betacam
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Russell Edwards

Discussion with George Mannix. If there is any form of expression that eats money it is the feature length movie. Camera, lights and actors all cost big bucks and many ideas have stopped at the drawing board simply because there wasn't enough money. Independent Producer George Mannix had other ideas.

Published March 1993
Against 'Neofuturism': Women Artists in Technological Media
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Zoe Sofia

In matters of technology, as in matters of sex, it is easy to assume one's own preferences are universal and normal, and to regard other's tastes as somehow debased or improper.

Published March 1993
Perplexities: Experimenta 1992
Feature
John Cumming

Over 12 days in November 1992, the Melbourne based Modern Image Makers Association (MIMA) held the third Experimenta presenting nearly 200 works of film, video, installation and performance. It included work from Germany, Japan, England and the USA, thus providing an opportunity to assess the current state of 'avant garde' practice and discourse.

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