Dylan Rowen maps itinerant traces of 'home' throughout the oeuvre of Chantal Akerman, from 1968's SAUTE MA VILLE to her final film, 2015's NO HOME MOVIE, examining her lifelong interests in the themes of place, embodiment, queer desire, and matriarchal lineages.
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"Cameras are weapons, so film the police, and don’t let them film you."
Fred Pryce examines the aesthetics of the body camera image as seen in Netflix's Oscar-nominated documentary THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR, within a lineage of ‘immersive’ propaganda and surveillance technologies.
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As part of our collaboration with @emergingwriters.bsky.social and @melbcinematheque.bsky.social, Liên Ta reflects on themes of religious devotion and sacrifice in several films screened during the Cinémathèque's season ‘Cine de Oro: Treasures of Mexican Cinema’s Golden Age.'
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bloody heck, nearing 100 (out of 124) withdrawals including pretty much all the big names and some surprises (to me)
Absolutely insane.
a wonderful holiday companion
"The picket line [...] becomes not just a place of protest but of community and shared knowledge."
Maudie Osborne on SALT OF THE EARTH, a blacklisted 1954 film that dramatised the real events of a New Mexico miners' strike with women at its centre.
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"Happiness, community, and fantasy are no less present in spaces like this."
Sydney Leoli Reyes draws on the sights and sounds of four Filipino masterworks, which screened in October and November as part of the @melbcinematheque.bsky.social Lino Brocka season.
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
woohoo! thank you sm to Litwin Books/Library Juice Press & the jury!
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🚨 Help our State Library!
Executives are trying to cut 11 permanent librarian positions, meaning 10 frontline librarians would remain to run Australia's busiest library.
They are proposing to outsource the library's critical information technology team.
www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
“I still want to remind people that this is a collective ritual.”
Oscar Bloomfield talks to Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul about being present, hearing music everywhere, and revisiting his first short, BULLET, ahead of a rare Sydney screening next week.
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I'm currently looking to talk with renters who have used a digital portal / app to conduct their own routine rental inspection without the real estate agent coming to your house. This is sometimes called a 'Remote Inspection'
If this is you, please get in touch!
“There is an archive that is lost, but there’s an archive that replaces it, which is made in the present.”
Indigo Bailey talks to Palestinian filmmaker Azza El-Hassan, whose work KINGS & EXTRAS screens at our Bridge of Solidarity fundraiser event Oct 11.
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"Kerr’s stop-and-go career momentum and the film’s aspirations as a somewhat conventional sports biopic create a friction, placing excess weight on the shoulders of its movie star attraction."
Read Kevin Bui on Benny Safdie’s THE SMASHING MACHINE.
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On Oct 11, we're co-hosting a mutual aid benefit screening of Azza El-Hassan's KINGS AND EXTRAS: DIGGING FOR A PALESTINIAN IMAGE & Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's HERE AND ELSEWHERE (ICI ET AILLEURS) in partnership with writer Dylan Rowen and Static Vision.
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A grey cat walking along books on a bookshelf.
A grey cat poking his head up from behind the top shelf of a bookshelf.
Worth linking to Eli McLean's Overland essay on Meanjin's closure and the state of publishing if you haven't yet
Our first piece in collaboration with the Emerging Writers' Festival x @melbcinematheque.bsky.social is a work of short fiction by Laetitia Um—a response to the Cinémathèque's recent Seijun Suzuki season that explores the troubled psyche of a side character in BRANDED TO KILL.
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Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!"
(via @Variety)
The Egg, a cricket trophy awarded to the winners of Overland vs Meanjin matches, alongside a copy of Jim Davidson's Emperor in Lilliput, the book about magazine founding editors Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith.
Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.
Rough Cut is proud to be partnering with the Emerging Writers Festival and @melbcinematheque.bsky.social to publish three responses to Cinémathèque seasons by emerging writers during EWF 2025 and beyond.
We'll kick off with the fest on Sep 11—watch this space! 💌🎥📝
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Where is Anthony Albanese in calling the attack on the First Nations Camp Sovereignty a hate crime, a terrorist act? There could not be a more blatant attack that is motivated by racial hatred and white supremacy and yet First Nations communities are again failed by this Government.
“This film is an artefact, and that’s how I wanted to make it; that’s how I want it to feel.”
Michelle Huang speaks to PASA FAHO director Kalu Oji about collaboration, intergenerational love and learning, and refusing assimilation.
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"I saw this very narrow version of Hollywood, and I didn’t like it."
Emily Browning talks to @connordalton.bsky.social about the joys and anxieties of her most formative roles, from her breakthrough in GHOST SHIP to her latest turn in the homegrown rom-com ONE MORE SHOT.
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Solidarity to the writers and artists taking a stand
I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The entire team. The entire team! The monstrosity of this is incomprehensible.
Required reading this film festival season!
AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.
AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
