Author Steven Ball

For some decades there has been two-way traffic between the avant-garde film worlds of Australia and the UK. Australian artists arrive from a local scene that continues to resonate with the influences of an ava...

In Ken McMullen’s 1983 film Ghost Dance, Jacques Derrida, improvising the role of a professor, is asked by Pascale Ogier, improvising the role of a student, whether he believes in ghosts. Derrida answers: That...

The trouble with archives is their lack of completeness. The mal d’archive, the archive fever that troubled Freud as explicated by Derrida (1), is in part the anxiety of the imperative of completeness, the need...

1. Material The low grain of the sound of Dirk de Bruyn's voice weaves through many of the films he made in the 1990s. Mike Hoolboom characterises this voice as providing an “inner monologue and conscience”,...

Rumpelstilzchen (1989 Germany 15 mins) Source: Light Cone Filmmaker: Jürgen Reble Zillertal (1991 Germany 11 mins) Source: Light Cone Filmmaker: Jürgen Reble Das Goldene Tor/The Golden Gate (1992 Ge...