From the Union Theatre to the Glasshouse and Beyond: Exploring One of Melbourne Film Culture’s Pivotal Transitions Digby Houghton November 2024 “A very open-ended canon”: The Many Histories of the Melbourne Cinémathèque His name plagues me. Everywhere I go I can hear it. Whenever I ask somebody for information pertaining to the Melbourne Cinémathèque, it’s not long before his name pops up again. Although a dentist by trade, Mi...
Queensland Digby Houghton March 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film It is July and Richmond are teetering on a spot in the top eight in the Australian Football League (AFL), a sport that is akin to a religion in Melbourne. It’s an average high of 13 degrees and the chilly south...
The Skywalk is Gone (Tsai Ming-liang, 2002) Digby Houghton May 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film Tsai Ming-Liang’s Tian qiao bu jian le (The Skywalk is Gone, 2002; Skywalk from here on) is a short film bridging his previous and subsequent features, Ni na bian ji dian (What Time is it There?, 2001) and Tian...
M (Fritz Lang, 1931) Digby Houghton May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Fritz Lang’s M (1931) is a cry for despair representing the dying moments of a free Germany before the reign of terror was concentrated under Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party. The film’s secondary title was “a c...