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...
Art and Loathing in The African Desperate Laura Henderson August 2022 MIFF at 70 The African Desperate (Martine Syms, 2022) captures the vital, painful moments of transition in the life of an MFA student on the eve of her graduation. Taking an art world lens to the coming-of-age genre, the ...
Give Me Pity! Kirsten Stevens August 2022 MIFF at 70 Amanda Kramer’s Give Me Pity!, screening this year at MIFF, offers a hyper-real, hyper-saturated, and at times nightmarish portrait of one women’s desire to “make it” in life and on Prime Time TV. Landing somew...
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...
Bird, Planet, Cinema: The Living Bodies of Shaunak Sen’s All that Breathes Alicia Byrnes July 2022 MIFF at 70 In his 2022 documentary, All that Breathes, Shaunak Sen conjures a nostalgic image of the Delhi skyline dotted with kites. The lower plane of the wide shot is dense cubic buildings topped by crowds of people. T...
An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) Nonie May July 2022 MIFF at 70 An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl, 2022) is a triumph for Irish-language cinema. Directed by Colm Bairéad, this coming-of-age narrative, set against a backdrop of rural Ireland in the 1980s, offers up a tender ac...
