Delayed Voyage: George Popperwell

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.

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

Transformation of the Real: Constantine Koukias and Ann Wulff

Review

Jane Deeth

Review To Traverse Water
IHOS Opera Hobart, Tasmania
Constantine Koukias and Ann Wulff

Published March 1993

The Pure and The Impure: Shaun Kirby

Review

Ken Bolton

Exhibition review Cultic Gloss: Shaun Kirby
Contemporary Art Centre
Adelaide, South Australia
October 23 - November 24 1992

Published March 1993

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

Against 'Neofuturism': Women Artists in Technological Media

Feature

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

"I Am Like You, I Am Different" - Beyond Ethnicity, Becoming Asian-Australian

Feature

Audrey Yue

Beyond ethnicity, becoming Asian - Australian. How does one address issues of ethnicity? What is authenticity?

Published March 1993

More Bangs for Bucks: Male Sexuality and Violence in Australian Film

Feature

Chris Berry

Looks at 3 Australian films: Romper Stomper Night Out and Resonance each of which brings masculinity, sexuality and violence together.

Published March 1993

"I Am Not A TV Show"

Feature

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

Domestic Noir Night Out

Feature

Peter Kemp

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.

Published March 1993