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Author Chris Luscri

Chris Luscri

Chris Luscri is an independent producer whose work spans narrative, documentary and multi-platform filmmaking. Chris produced the short films Sammy The Salmon and Grevillea, which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2018 and the Berlinale in 2020 respectively, in addition to serving as Line Producer on Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s contribution to the Badfaith Collective - VR project Exquisite Corpse (MIFF 2018) and Executive Producer on the hybrid documentary The Plastic House (MIFF 2020, Sydney Film Festival 2020). He has also curated film programs for the Adelaide Film Festival and the 9:16 Film Festival, as well as the regular series Unknown Pleasures at the Thornbury Picture House, alongside Senses of Cinema founder Bill Mousoulis.

Australian Autofiction: A Filmmaker Roundtable by Chris Luscri

Chris Luscri
July 2021
Australian Autofiction
Outside of small research studies and articles that have appeared in academic journals, there is an absence of in-depth contextual work around personal filmmaking in Australia. This roundtable, featuring six ke...

Singing songs of sevdalinka in Saidin Salkic’s The Shells Exploding Gently

Chris Luscri
July 2021
Australian Autofiction
Saidin Salkic’s new film The Shells Exploding Gently (2020) begins, characteristically, as a work in extremis. A face, a voice, the camera held close, the corner of a door, the sound of lapping waves. At first,...

So Full Of Shapes Is Fancy: Matías Piñeiro’s Viola

Chris Luscri
April 2015
CTEQ Annotations on Film
The films of Matías Piñeiro represent something of an ouroboros for a writer enthused by the task of categorization and analysis, for the simple fact that they take the perennial “inability to be pinned down” a...

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