‘Defiant Access’ and ‘Cultural Revenge’: Australia Re-imagined Through Archive Cinema Wendy Haslem May 2023 Cinema and Piracy Borrowed, remixed, archival, or appropriated images and sounds that are used to build found footage montages have the potential to create counter narratives that disrupt the illusion of a dominant, homogenous s...
MIFF At 70 Wendy Haslem August 2022 MIFF at 70 Seventy years ago, in January, 1952, The Australian Council of Film Societies presented a program of international films in Olinda, on the outskirts of Melbourne. The following year this event became known as t...
Fire of Love Wendy Haslem August 2022 MIFF at 70 “There are so many ways to tell a story, so many ways to read the world.” Fire of Love (Sara Dosa, 2021) is drawn from the Krafft archive, a collection of moving and still images created by Katia and Maurice K...
Hidden Images: The Disappearance and Re-appearance of the Leader Lady Wendy Haslem July 2020 Feature Articles This article has been peer-reviewed. I am in a darkened back room of The Australian Mediatheque watching one of the 128 films that were donated to The Australian Centre for the Moving Image by the Chinese Co...
Great Directors: Maya Deren (Issue 23, December 2002) Wendy Haslem October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 23, December 2002. Eleanora Derenkowsky b. April 29, 1917, Kiev, Ukraine d. October 13, 1961, New York, New York, USA Maya Deren: The High Priestess of Exper...
Flowering Blood: The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano, by Sean Redmond Wendy Haslem March 2014 Book Reviews We are in Tokyo in search of the oldest noodle restaurant in Japan. Its 1999 and pre-gps. Guided by scant details offered in the travel guide, we take the wrong exit from the station and wander in the early e...
‘Chromatic Frankenstein’s Monsters?’: Restoration, Colour and Variants of Georges Méliès’s Voyage dans la Lune Wendy Haslem December 2012 Feature Articles The restored edition of ‘the original colour version’ of Voyage dans la Lune (Trip to the Moon, Georges Méliès, 1902/Lobster Films, 2011) opened the Cannes Film Festival to great wonder and acclaim in 2011. The...
‘Little Pieces of Infinity’: Hiraki Sawa’s O Wendy Haslem April 2010 Feature Articles London based video artist Hiraki Sawa’s latest screen installation O represents, according to Wendy Haslem, “an extension of early cinematic experiments with chronophotography into the digital age”. Haslem explores the myriad of temporal and spatial dynamics that inform his rich and sublime work.
A Report on the 2nd Human Rights Arts and Film Festival Wendy Haslem March 2009 Festival Reports 13-23 November 2008 Melbourne, travelling to Sydney, Perth, Canberra and Brisbane As I was queuing for the screening of Undressing Vanessa, Matthew Pond’s fabulous film about Vanessa, a drag queen act...
L’Atalante Wendy Haslem November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film L’Atalante (1934 France 89 mins) Prod Co: Gaumont-Franco-Film-Aubert Prod: Jacques-Louis Nounez Dir: Jean Vigo Scr: Jean Vigo, Albert Rièra, from the scenario by Jean Guinèe Phot: Boris Kaufman, Louis B...
Sorry, Wrong Number Wendy Haslem October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Sorry, Wrong Number (1948 USA 89 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Hal Wallis Productions/Paramount Prod: Hal Wallis, Anatole Litvak Dir: Anatole Litvak Scr: Lucille Fletcher, based on her own play Phot: Sol ...
Neon Gothic: Lost in Translation Wendy Haslem April 2004 Feature Articles Recalling the work of Antonioni and evoking the Gothic in its emphasis on alienation and disjunction, Lost in Translation, together with other recent romantic comedies, represents a significant shift in the romance genre.
Deren, Maya Wendy Haslem December 2002 Great Directors Eleanora Derenkowsky b. April 29, 1917, Kiev, Ukraine d. October 13, 1961, New York, New York, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Maya Deren: The High Priestess of Experi...
