Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia John Hughes July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers The new feature documentary scheduled for release at the Melbourne International Film Festival this year, Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia, revisits the making of the 22-minute, 1946 documentary ...
Free at Last: Robert Connolly’s Balibo Adrian Danks July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers Robert Connolly’s Balibo (2009) is one of the strongest and best Australian films of recent years, and a welcome, committed return to the territory and approach of such political thrillers of the 1980s as H...
Dogs in Space David Nichols July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers In early 1985, during promotional interviews for his new group, Beargarden, Sam Sejavka told Juke magazine’s Robbie Coates that “Richard Lowenstein, the video maker”, had recently suggested that he “wanted ...
Interview with Richard Lowenstein Rolando Caputo and Peter Tapp July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers This is an edited version of an interview originally published in Filmviews, No. 131 (Autumn 1987), pp. 2-7. It is reproduced with the kind permission of the authors. (1) Richard Lowenstein graduated fro...
Post-Punk and Vision Jon Dale July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers Post-punk’s discursive watchword was “demystification”: unpack the “meaning behind the moaning” (as Public Image Ltd’s John Lydon would sing in “Careering”), bypass the industrial machinations of the music ...
Notes for a Critique of Going Down John Flaus July 2009 John Flaus Dossier, MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers When his 27A won the Australian Film Award for Best Fiction Film in 1974, producer Haydn Keenan brandished the trophy at the august assembly and declared something like, “To all those who said we couldn’t do it...
Go-Go Gorilla: Another Time, Another Place: Making My Film at Swinburne Hugh Marchant July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers The summary of my student short film, Meanwhile Elsewhere (1981), in the National Film & Sound Archive catalogue reads: An experimental film with heavy gothic overtones. Images include a woman clad in ...
