Author Tanya Farley

There are one million moments in your neighbourhood, but as the filmmakers discovered, each has a fragile presence which fades almost as it forms.  The title of Jane Campion’s 1984 short film Passionless Mom...

In 1956 television arrived in Australia, so too did Hungarian refugee Ivan Gaal. Fast-forward twenty years, Gaal was a photographer and filmmaker embarking on his fourth short film Applause Please, and whils...

By the time Lynne Ramsay made her third short film, Gasman, the spotlight was already firmly cast on the 29-year-old Glaswegian. Since graduating from the UK’s National Film and Television School, Ramsay had wo...