Author Dylan Rainforth

Dylan Rainforth

Dylan Rainforth is a member of the Melbourne Cinémathèque committee. He is currently completing a Master of Arts in art history and theory, at Monash University, which looks at the work of artist and theorist Hito Steyerl in terms of an essayistic practice combining film, writing, installation and lecture-performance.

Boxing on with Mao and Mundine: Come Out Fighting

Dylan Rainforth

May 2008

CTEQ Annotations on Film

Come Out Fighting (1973 Australia 50 mins) Dir: Nigel Buesst Scr: Nigel Buesst, based on the play by Harry Martin Phot: Byron Kennedy Ed: Tony Patterson Cast: Michael Karpaney, Joey Collins, Bethany L...

This Film’s Going Bad: Collaborative Cutting in Daisies

Dylan Rainforth

August 2007

CTEQ Annotations on Film

Daisies/Sedmikrásky (1966 Czechoslovakia 74 mins) Prod Co: Filmové Studio Barrandov Prod: Ladislav Fikar, Bohumil Smída Dir: Věra Chytilová Scr: Věra Chytilová, Ester Krumbachová, Pavel Jurácek Phot: Jar...

Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: Three Films from New Zealand’s Digital Video “Revolution”

Criminals Against Decoration: Modernism as a Heist

The New-Ark: trying to disavow anti-blackness

Claustrophobia and Intimacy in Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth and Her Smell

What’s in a Cone? Barbara Loden’s Wanda Between Weakness and Resilience

Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea

Thresholds of Work and Non-Work in Tulapop Saenjaroen’s People on Sunday

Censorship Forum at the Sydney Film Festival

The 34th Cinema Ritrovato Has Full Resuscitation under COVID

Women at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival

Lest We Forget: the 31st FID Marseille

A Vitalising Cinema in an Agitated Age: The 58th New York Film Festival

Locarno 2020: The Open Doors Experience

Your Daughters Come Back to You: The 28th Pan African Film and Arts Festival

For the Sake of Argument: Responding to Jake Wilson

Trade Follows the Film: Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System by Lee Grieveson

War, Community, and the Cinema: Front Lines of Community: Hollywood Between War and Democracy by Hermann Kappelhof and Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris

The Perfect Conditional: Philippe Garrel by Michael Leonard

Creating the Appearance of Being: The Art of American Screen Acting 1960 to Today, by Dan Callahan

The Restless Spectator: Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies, by Sarah Keller

Engaged Vision: Critical Mass: Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave, by Steven Ungar

Sicilia! (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, 1999)

Stairways to Paradise: Youssef Chahine and Alexandria…Why?

At Home Among Strangers (Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих, Nikita Mikhalkov, 1974)

German Yearnings, East and West: The Sons of Great Bear (Josef Mach, 1966)

Waiting for Rain: Oppression and Resistance in Youssef Chahine’s The Land (1970)

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

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov, Alla Surikova, 1987)

Carax, Leos

Scott, Tony

Menzel, Jiří

Wise, Robert

Fernández, Emilio “Indio”

Fei Mu

Huston, John

Boxing on with Mao and Mundine: Come Out Fighting

This Film’s Going Bad: Collaborative Cutting in Daisies