Pretty as a Picture: Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era

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

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

"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

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

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

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

Monica Pellizari's Short Black Look at the Italian-Australian Experience

Feature

Rose Capp

The title of Monical Pellizari's recently completed short film has a characteristically wry double edge. 'Just Desserts (1993)' tempers an unfortunates Australian maxim with distinctive humour. This film is a delight, a consolidation of the stylistic and thematic concerns of her previous 3 films in 13 witty and evocative minutes.

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

Film and Video

Editorial

Annette Blonski

The emphasis in this collection has been on the films and videos themselves rather than the structures which support their production and circulation but they have not been overlooked....

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

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

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