Cinema or Death

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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

Published 25 August 2021
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Yours truly, The Department of Homo Affairs
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Jessie Boylan

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Gallery Lane Cove
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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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Hyphenated Projects
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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

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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Digital Art
Feature
John Conomos

The Third International symposium on Electronic Art (TISEA) which took place in 16 venues in Sydney from 9 -13 November 1992 converted the whole city into a massive hologram event.

Published March 1993
The End of Independence? Women's Film and Video in the 1990s
Feature
Sue Maslin

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.

Published March 1993
Wizards of Oz: Into the 90s - Between Documentary and Fiction
Feature
Freda Freiberg

In the incredible shrinking space between 1984 and 2001 the distinction between social-issue documentary and surreal fiction is collapsing - almost as fast as Australian capitalism or Soviet communism.

Published March 1993
Wild: Beyond the Deconstruction
Feature
Deane Williams

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
TV Eye: Cinema in the Age of Video
Feature
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....

Published March 1993
Brother Can You Spare a SP Betacam
Feature
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
Floral Tributes: The Flower
Review
Peter Hill

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

Published March 1993
Independent Distribution and Exhibition
Feature
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.

Published March 1993
The Last Days of Chez Nous: Love Stories and Girls' Blouses
Feature
Leonie Naughton

In his discussion of male sexuality, it was Freud who asserted that men customarily distribute their libido with expedience. What psychical energies a man 'employs for cultural aims he to a great extent withdraws from women and sexual life'. But not so in the love story, a genre which disavows this predicament.

Published March 1993
Journey by Proxy
Review
Dorothy Erickson

Exhibition review Crossings Mary Knott: Drawings and Sculptures 1988 - 1992
Curated by Tony Geddes
The Art Gallery of Western Australia
October 3 - December 13 1992
Geraldton Regional Gallery
December 18 -January 21 1993
Bunbury Art Galleries
January 30 - March 7 1993

Published March 1993
Colonial Patterns Repeated: Robert Harrison
Review
Margaret Worth

Exhibition review Architecture without Walls Robert Harrison
University of South Australia Art Museum
10 September - 3 October 1992

Published March 1993
Pretty as a Picture: Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era
Review
Louise Dauth

Exhibition review Completing the Picture: Women artists and the Heidelberg era
Carrick Hill, South Australia
8 November - 6 December 1992

Published March 1993
 
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