Issue 59 | June 2011
The Quest for Memory: Documentary and Fiction in Jia Zhangke’s Films
Author Jiwei Xiao analyses the aesthetics and the theme of memory that underpin the films of Jia Zhangke, the foremost contemporary Chinese director of his
Filming Disappearance or Renewal? The Ever-Changing Representations of Taipei in Contemporary Taiwanese Cinema
Flannery Wilson looks at the characterization of Taipei in a range of films, and sees something different to the norm emerging in director Arvin Chen’s
On Reality and Imagination: An Interview with Documentarian Dai Sil Kim-Gibson
Earlier this year, the Korean American Film Festival in New York held a retrospective of Kim-Gibson’s work. In this interview she discusses politics, art and
Welcome: An Insight into the Landscape of Contemporary French Consciousness
Set amongst the world of refugees and asylum seekers in the port city of Calais, Philippe Lioret’s 2009 film says much about France’s confrontation with
Trinbagonianness in Film: National Identity in Trinidad and Tobago Cinema
An introductory essay on the post-colonial emergence of a regional cinema often overlooked in contemporary film history
Don’t Rain on Ava Gardner Parade
“I’m here to make a film about the end of the world… and this seems to be exactly the right place for it.” – Ava
Marvellous Melbourne: Queen City of the South
In the days of early film production “scenics” or “gazettes” were seminal in establishing urban film-going as “big business”. Most popular between 1903 and 1912,
A City of Song and Satire: Melbourne Wedding Belle
“Back to the city where we’re born and we die Melbourne as usual with clouds in the sky.” - from Melbourne Wedding Belle (1953) When
Your House and Mine
The 23-minute film, Your House and Mine (1954) sees Robin Boyd and Peter McIntyre – two leading Australian architects of their day, whose work, language
The Cleaners
Malcolm Wallhead’s 15-minute voyeuristic essay on Melbourne city life, consumerism, and waste is plotted within the arc of a cinematic day. This structure – the