Cinema or Death

Cover of Cinema or Death
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Foreign returned: Between expatriate and repatriate in Mumbai
Feature
Balamohan Shingade

Published 01 September 2018
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Human flow in Melanesia: Taloi Havini's artefacts and habitats
Feature
Nicholas Thomas

Published 01 September 2018
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Living and dying under surveillance: Xu Bing's Dragonfly Eyes
Feature
Sasha Grbich

Published 01 September 2018
PICA 2
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Inhuman flow: Censorship and art in the two Chinas
Feature
Darren Jorgensen and Tami Xiang

Published 01 September 2018
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Sublime Plight: Richard Mosse, Ai Weiwei and the social turn
Feature
Wes Hill

Published 01 September 2018
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YARN: The art of conversation
Feature

Coby Edgar interviews Warren Roberts, CEO of YARN Australia

Published June 2018
Joondalup
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Editorial: Kanarn Wangkiny/Wanggandi Karlto (Speaking from Inside)
Feature
Clothilde Bullen with James Tylor

Published 01 June 2018
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Katie West: Living well
Feature
Katie West

Published 01 June 2018

What is the effect on film when the maker's background is utterly different from the culture in which he now works. Anna Epstein talked to a film-maker who brings fresh vision to the Australian film industry.

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Colonial Patterns Repeated: Robert Harrison
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The End of Independence? Women's Film and Video in the 1990s
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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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Aleksi Vellis announced his arrival in the turmoil of early 90s Australian cinema with his debut feature 'Nirvana Street Murder' a restlessly energetic film with cavalier camera moves that are almost as swish as the director himself.

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Domestic Noir Night Out
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Surely one of the powers of cinema is the aesthetic redemption of everyday reality, a poetics in motion that can distill and energise mundane objects, be they tiles on a kitchen wall, the fluorescent facade of an airport terminal, a luminously white T-shirt being twisted and tugged or the compact shapeliness of Y-fronts on a young body emerging from bed.

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Lesbian Independent Cinema and Queer Theory
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Lesbians do not exist in mainstream Australian cinema. Apart from a brief sequence representing youthful lesbian desire in 'The Getting of Wisdom (1977)' and the undercurrent of adolescent homoeroticism in 'Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)' Australian cinema has remained mute - perhaps dumbstruck might be a more appropriate term - in relation to the issue of desire between women.

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Against 'Neofuturism': Women Artists in Technological Media
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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.

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The 7th International Video Festival
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Blotting paper, alchemy or potent cocktail. When radical European film-makers in the 1950s with the Nagra sound recorder and noiseless, hand held camera, the Eclair, launched what they called Cinema Verite, they thought they had discovered a way to film truth on the move.

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Come Again: Aldo Lacobelli
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Experimental Art Foundation
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