Girlhood Wild and Queer: Ana Kokkinos’s Only The Brave (1994) Whitney Monaghan July 2017 Pioneering Australian Women Issue 83 Ana Kokkinos’ short feature film Only The Brave (1994) opens in darkness with an expressive soundscape composed of soft, breathy murmurs and indeterminate words. These noises seem unmistakably like the...
DIY, independent, guerrilla: the 10th Sydney Underground Film Festival Whitney Monaghan December 2016 Festival Reports Issue 81 SUFF revels in the weird and wonderful, the avant-garde, alternative and experimental, in low-budget, DIY, independent and guerrilla, in “black comedy, dry comedy, and Japanese batshit crazy comedy” – as...
Mashup Videos and the Queer Archive Whitney Monaghan September 2016 New Directions in Screen Studies Issue 80 While queer representation in mainstream television is increasing, queer teens remain in a marginal space in screen culture. Often limited to a coming out story, queer characters are typically depicted as...
