Report on the 1st World Student Film Festival Patrick Crogan September 2001 Festival Reports The very first World Student Film Festival, including Shohei Imamura as head of its organising committee, was held recently in Okinawa.
Translating Kurosawa Patrick Crogan September 2000 CTEQ Annotations on Film At the outset of this introduction to the films of Akira Kurosawa, I want to raise the issue of cross-cultural viewing or 'reception'. I am not Japanese. And, furthermore, I do not speak or read Japanese. I...
Seven Samurai Patrick Crogan September 2000 CTEQ Annotations on Film Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954 Japan 200mins) Source: Heritage Films Prod Co: Toho Prod: Shojiro Motoko Dir: Akira Kurosawa Scr: Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni & Kurosawa Phot: Asakazu Nak...
Between Heads: Thoughts on the Merry Widow Tune in Shadow of a Doubt Patrick Crogan May 2000 Conference: For the Love of Fear This paper was presented at the Alfred Hitchcock conference For the Love of Fear convened by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, held from 31 March to 2 April 2000. * * * Introduction This paper co...
Things Analog and Digital Patrick Crogan April 2000 Special Effects/Special Affects: Technologies of the Screen - A Symposium This paper was given at the Special Effects/Special Affects: Technologies of the Screen symposium held at the University of Melbourne, 25/3/2000. * * * Introduction This paper comes from the intertwining o...