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Author Cerise Howard

Cerise Howard

Cerise Howard is a New Zealand-born co-curator of the Melbourne Cinémathèque who co-founded the Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia and was its Artistic Director from 2013 to 2018. A Studio Leader at RMIT University specialising in incubating film festivals and interrogating the canon, she is an oft called-upon commentator on intersections of screen media, gender, sexuality and other matters; a regular broadcaster on Melbourne radio station 3RRR, and has been a member of the International Jury Board of the East-West: Golden Arch Awards, celebrating Eurasian cinema, for its three editions to date. Away from film she plays bass with Queen Kong and The HOMOsapiens.

Othering Heights: The Queerest of the Queer in Rosa von Praunheim’s City of Lost Souls (1983)

Cerise Howard
December 2022
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Prolific activist-filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim was born Holger Radtke in Nazi-occupied Latvia in 1942. He rebranded himself “Rosa”, to serve as a constant reminder to others of the pink triangle that gay prison...

To walk away, you gotta leave something behind, or a long story short: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

Cerise Howard
December 2022
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For all that it contains resonances of queer musical elders – The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975), the Sandra Bernhard vehicle Without You I'm Nothing (John Boskovich, 1990) and, perhaps most of a...

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? The 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Cerise Howard
August 2022
Festival Reports
While there was a KVIFF last year (held uncharacteristically in August, from the 20th to the 28th) and a 16-film-strong roaming festival-in-miniature (“KVIFF at Your Cinema”) staged in 2020, I could attend neit...

Of East and West and High and Low: Lemonade Joe (1964)

Cerise Howard
October 2020
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It’s not news that the 1960s were an extraordinarily fecund time for cinema in Czechoslovakia; the output of the filmmakers connected to the FAMU-centred Czechoslovak New Wave has been celebrated unstintingly, ...

Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969): the Rule of Three in Juraj Jakubisko’s Exemplary Gallows Bacchanalia

Cerise Howard
July 2020
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Jakubisko is kin to Brazil's Glauber Rocha, America's Robert Downey, Mexico's Alejandro Jodorovski, Yuri Ilyenko of the Ukraine, Sergei Paradzhanov of Armenia, Miklós Jancsó of Hungary, and in a way to Poland's...

Of liberation, and of states of undress and redress both: The 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Cerise Howard
October 2019
Festival Reports
Oftentimes reports of mine on the venerable Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) have looked a mite askance at its gender politics. But along comes 2019 and, shut the front door – the 54th KVIFF’s t...

From Saturday to Sunday (Gustav Machatý, 1931), or: Don’t you wonder sometimes ’bout sound and vision?

Cerise Howard
September 2019
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The work of Czech director Gustav Machatý (1901–1963) is enjoying a surprise renaissance. The 76th Venice Film Festival had as its pre-opening event a screening of a new digital restoration of Extase (Ecstasy),...

It’s a Cobbler’s Lot: Peter Strickland’s Penchant for Synaesthetic, Švankmajerian Surrealism and Fetishism

Cerise Howard
July 2019
The Analogues of Peter Strickland
"One sensation of mind, one fabric in recollection of touch." - Saleswoman Miss Luckmoore (Fatma Mohamed), waxing typically gnomic, in In Fabric (Peter Strickland, 2018). Peter Strickland's latest hyper-styli...

A Time of Reckoning? The 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Cerise Howard
October 2018
Festival Reports
This year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) was always going to have a lot to address. For Czechs (and Slovaks), 2018 is a year overladen with anniversaries, with two in particular impossible t...
Prefab Story

Prefab Story (Věra Chytilová, 1979): Farcical Times at a Prague High-rise

Cerise Howard
June 2018
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A common misconception in the West is that Věra Chytilová directed only a few significant, narratively and aesthetically adventurous films, and all in the 1960s – O něčem jiném (Something Different, 1963), 1966...
Howard Film Festival

A Queer Tale of Two Sister Cities, 100 Years and the First FIPRESCI Colloquium Dedicated to Russian Cinema

Cerise Howard
December 2017
Festival Reports
The First FIPRESCI Colloquium Dedicated to Russian Cinema 13-15 November 2017 Lenfilm Studio, St. Petersburg Colloquium website: https://new.culturalforum.ru/event/2017-11-12-pervyj-kollokvium-fipressi-posvy...
Pearls of the Deep

Pearls of the Deep, or Five Masterly Apprentices’ Guides to Bohumil Hrabal’s Gift of the Gab

Cerise Howard
September 2016
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The 1960s' Czechoslovak New Wave was lightning in a bottle, a glorious film miracle born of an unrepeatable collision of societal and political factors. An extraordinary pool of talented young filmmakers came t...
Fribourg

Of Female Trouble Here, There and Everywhere: The 30th Fribourg International Film Festival

Cerise Howard
July 2016
Festival Reports
Ah, anniversaries. How readily a landmark – and a sense of obligation towards its acknowledgment being given a due sense of occasion – might become more millstone than milestone. And so the challenge presented ...
The Beast

The Nature of The Beast Remains… Irrepressible!

Cerise Howard
May 2016
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Few more controversial figures have enlivened cinema than the Polish polymath Walerian Borowczyk; far fewer still experienced so massive a fall from critical grace. At the epicentre of this fall lay La Bête (Th...
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Whose are the Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant?

Cerise Howard
March 2016
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“When it came to Fassbinder, ... one was made to feel that the real drama in film after film wasn't so much in the makeshift characters or the fruit-salad images but in the offscreen intrigues of a baby Caligul...
Karlovy Vary and Odessa Film Festival reviews

Local and/or General… Of Time and Place at the 50th Karlovy Vary and 6th Odessa International Film Festival

Cerise Howard
September 2015
Festival Reports
Feature image: Eva Zaoralová holding aloft her book, The Story of a Festival 2015 found the summertime festivals in Karlovy Vary and Odessa in introspective but nonetheless celebratory moods. In Karlovy Vary, ...
The Outrageous Baron Munchausen film review

Fly Me to the Moon: Love and Lunacy in The Outrageous Baron Munchausen

Cerise Howard
June 2015
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Of all the takes on the oft-filmed debonair teller of outlandish heroic tales introduced to the literary world in Rudolf Erich Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Rus...
A Jester's Tale film review

Any Way the Wind Blows: A Jester’s Tale

Cerise Howard
June 2015
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After three feature length triumphs mixing live-action with animation, Karel Zeman took a departure from sci-fi and fantasy missions implausible and instead engaged mockingly with terrible historical fact. With...

In and Out of the Mood: The 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Cerise Howard
October 2014
Festival Reports
This July just past I attended my second Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, my second in succession, as a member of a five critic-strong FIPRESCI jury. Accordingly, my main focus at the KVIFF this year w...

The Exquisite Ecstasy and Agony of Jan Švankmajer’s Conspirators of Pleasure

Cerise Howard
June 2014
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“Tactile wooden spoons, pot lids, rolling pins and boards are alchemistic tools and our bodies are the crucible for the Magnum Opus of tactilism.” - Jan Švankmajer (1) Jan Švankmajer’s third feature film, S...

The Festival that Came in from the South: The 28th Fribourg International Film Festival

Cerise Howard
June 2014
Festival Reports
I've written three times previously in Senses of Cinema on the Fribourg International Film Festival, covering the festivals in 2010, '11 and '12. While I missed last year's FIFF, it is very clear that each succ...
Burning Bush

Post-Soviet Bloc Partying West of the East and East of the West, Into and Out of the Past: The 48th Karlovy Vary and the 4th Odessa International Film Festival

Cerise Howard
September 2013
Festival Reports
Mine was at least a twofold purpose for flying half way around the world to the far west late this June just passed. Long had I wanted to make my way to Karlovy Vary for the Czech Republic's A-list film festiva...

The Passion of the Peasant Poet: Jiří Trnka, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Hand

Cerise Howard
February 2013
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“The very name conjures up childhood & poetry.” (1) – Jean Cocteau “‘Mr. Deitch, I am a very famous man!’ Jiří Trnka was indeed a very famous man – in Czechoslovakia and in the entire world of animation....

The South’s Not Long for This World: The 26th Fribourg International Film Festival

Cerise Howard
July 2012
Festival Reports
In the wake of former Artistic Director Edouard Waintrop's triumphal, ceremonious departure to become Director of Les Cinémas du Grütli in Geneva at the close of last year's edition – all bouquets, nary a b...

Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin by William Beard; and Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin edited by David Church

Cerise Howard
March 2012
Book Reviews
At the time of writing we are but a few weeks out from the 84th Academy Awards. Extraordinarily, the two films most likely to be most showered with Oscars at this year’s ceremony are The Artist (Michel Hazanavi...

A Twilight Portrait: A Report on the 21st Film Festival Cottbus, Festival of East European Cinema

Cerise Howard
December 2011
Festival Reports
The Film Festival Cottbus: 21 this year! One might then pause to consider, with the festival attaining maturity (if we were to arbitrarily decide that 21 is, as we do with humans, a marker of such): does its mi...

Many Things to Ever More People: The 25th Fribourg International Film Festival

Cerise Howard
May 2011
Festival Reports
For two years running I've attended the Fribourg International Film Festival. The timing of my engagements with the festival has been propitious; it strikes me that the FIFF is a festival just now coming into i...

Going South in 2010: Thinking Global, Talking Local: The 24th Fribourg International Film Festival

Cerise Howard
July 2010
Festival Reports
To retain only the word cinema, without an adjective. – Edouard Waintrop, Director of the Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) (1) This pocket manifesto from Director of FIFFs 22 through to 24 ended a ...

Turning X in an XXY World: The 10th Mezipatra Queer Film Festival

Cerise Howard
December 2009
Festival Reports
A Quick Backgrounder, For Those Who Came in Late With its advent smack-bang on the first year of a new millennium, Mezipatra, the Czech Republic's queer film festival and, by a considerable margin, its large...

Flying Dreams of a Fledgling Festival: The 3rd Middle East International Film Festival

Cerise Howard
December 2009
Festival Reports
Who'd a thunk it? All of a sudden the Persian Gulf is host to a slew of film festivals brimming with internationalist, top-tier ambition and seemingly mad keen to hothouse a vibrant homegrown film culture. T...

A Girl’s Own Adventure, or Something – but Not the Same Thing – for Everyone: The 19th Melbourne Queer Film Festival

Cerise Howard
July 2009
Festival Reports
18-29 March 2009 (1) In 2009, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) can – and does – still boast of being the second biggest film festival in Melbourne, quite an accomplishment in a city where, barrin...

Inside and Out: The 8th AniFest: International Festival of Animated Films

Cerise Howard
July 2009
Festival Reports
Třeboň 1-4 May 2009 Teplice 7-10 May 2009 My second AniFest, after my first sally to the Czech Republic and its proliferative animation festival just last year (1), found me in the privileged position of re...
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AniFest Destiny: The 7th AniFest: International Festival of Animated Films

Cerise Howard
August 2008
Festival Reports
7–13 May 2008 Such a hive of industry was the seventh AniFest, an annual international competitive festival – and much more besides – held in the small, picturesque South Bohemian town of Třeboň. For ato...
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A Taxidermia Indeed: Stuffed to the Gills at MIFF Although Still a Little Miffed at Some Stuff: The 55th Melbourne International Film Festival

Cerise Howard
November 2006
Festival Reports
26 July – 13 August, 2006 Excepting an Opening Night publicity coup, of which, more below, the Melbourne International Film Festival’s last year with James Hewison as Executive Director unfurled much as ...
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Queer and Queerer, or Fucking Different: The 16th Melbourne Queer Film Festival

Cerise Howard
May 2006
Festival Reports
March 2–12, 2006 The 2006 Commonwealth Games’ wholesale usurpation of Melbourne events calendars impacted upon the scheduling of this year’s MQFF, bringing it forward a week and into a curious synchronic...
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“Monologue is my preferred means of discourse.” A Bricolage Interview with Richard Wolstencroft in absentia

Cerise Howard
June 2001
Festival Reports
Richard Wolstencroft is the director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, aka MUFF, commencing its second annual season in 2001 from July 5-15, and is the director of the sometimes lambasted, othertime...

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