Pretty as a Picture: Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Published March 1993

Come Again: Aldo Lacobelli

Review

John Neylon

Exhibition review Souvenirs Aldo Iacobelli
Experimental Art Foundation
South Australia
22 October - 15 November 1992

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

The 7th International Video Festival

Feature

Jan Birmingham

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.

Published March 1993