Pioneer Room Rhapsody A slightly cagey throng of greying cinemagoers mill nervously in the lower foyer of Sydney’s State Theatre. Red liveried ushers assure us the theatre will be opened soon. A quick trip to the toilet past the antlers and oaken tables of the “Pioneer’s Room”, a few moments wondering why cinema in the [...]
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Paul Macovaz is researching epoch cycles in the European cinema for his doctoral thesis at the University of Sydney.
Articles by Paul Macovaz:
On the edges of Sydney’s inner city, as the terrace housing thins, depots and warehouses begin to mingle with a vast suburban prairie. Here, in the aptly named Factory Theatre, the still youthful, one might say swaddling-clad, Sydney Underground Film Festival holds an annual, short-lived, series of screenings. Since 2007, festival founder-director Stephan Popescu and [...]
