Introduction: American Extreme
This dossier brings together a collection of articles on a number of filmmakers and filmmaking practices a little beyond Senses of Cinema’s typical focus. This serves as an introduction to and consideration of ...
The Pornographic Imagination Manifest: Notes On Usama Alshaibi’s The Amateurs (2003)
“I think there was something internally stimulating to go (to) that space, collectively there was a high, a mutual fantasy, we forgot we were making anything – it seemed like the performance was really for one ...
Notes From (Sydney) Underground: The 2nd Sydney Underground Film Festival
11-14 September 2008
By way of an introduction.
For those not fully engaged with the vagaries of the underground it should be observed that the underground is a contested space. Some would suggest undergr...
Hot, Hard Cocks and Tight, Tight Unlubricated Assholes: Transgression, Sexual Ambiguity and “Perverse” Pleasures in Serge Gainsbourg’s Je t’aime moi non plus
If certain body parts and functions are coded as normal and acceptable, Sargeant examines a film that turns these presuppositions on their head.
American Nightmare: The Baying of Pigs: Reflections on the New American Horror Movie
Sargeant is once again knee deep in the horror of humanity.
No Text / No Truth / Jouissance and Revolution: An Interview with Craig Baldwin
Taking place before his most recent film Spectres of the Spectrum (1999), Baldwin here discusses his background, Dada, neo-colonialism and his many films.
A Brief Introduction to the Beat (in) Film
The glorious Beat Cinema here intelligently and knowledgeably discussed.