MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier
Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia
The new feature documentary scheduled for release at the Melbourne International Film Festival this year, Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia, revisits the making of
Free at Last: Robert Connolly’s Balibo
Robert Connolly’s Balibo (2009) is one of the strongest and best Australian films of recent years, and a welcome, committed return to the territory and
Dogs in Space
In early 1985, during promotional interviews for his new group, Beargarden, Sam Sejavka told Juke magazine’s Robbie Coates that “Richard Lowenstein, the video maker”, had
Interview with Richard Lowenstein
This is an edited version of an interview originally published in Filmviews, No. 131 (Autumn 1987), pp. 2-7. It is reproduced with the kind permission
Post-Punk and Vision
Post-punk’s discursive watchword was “demystification”: unpack the “meaning behind the moaning” (as Public Image Ltd’s John Lydon would sing in “Careering”), bypass the industrial machinations
Notes for a Critique of Going Down
When his 27A won the Australian Film Award for Best Fiction Film in 1974, producer Haydn Keenan brandished the trophy at the august assembly and
Go-Go Gorilla: Another Time, Another Place: Making My Film at Swinburne
The summary of my student short film, Meanwhile Elsewhere (1981), in the National Film & Sound Archive catalogue reads: An experimental film with heavy gothic