Pretty as a Picture: Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era

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

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.

Published March 1993

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

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

Aleksi Vellis

Feature

Deb Verhoeven

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

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

Redemptive Moments Through Utter Despair: The Films of Brian McKenzie

Feature

Marcus Breen

Expressionism and modernism. Two old fashioned words in these days of post modernism.

Published March 1993

Who Told You We Wanted To Make Our Own TV?

Feature

Philip Batty

The broadcasting in remote Aboriginal Communities Scheme and the failure of policy.

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

One Way Street

Feature

John Hughes

John Hughes independent documentary film on Walter Benjamin One Way Street was screened on ABC television in December 1992, the centenary year of Benjamin's birth. The film has been released to festival audiences in the US and Europe and will theatrical release in Sydney and Melbourne in 1993. Here John Hughe slips into pause and explores an opening on certain scenes.

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

Lesbian Independent Cinema and Queer Theory

Feature

Barbara Creed

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.

Published March 1993