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Welcome to Issue 8 of our journal!Festival fever has taken hold of Australia currently. The Sydney Film Festival took place recently, and we have a couple of reports from it, and the Brisbane and the two Melbourne (MIFF and MUFF) festivals are about to begin. We have a special preview of the 49th Melbourne International Film Festival.
Also in this issue, we focus on Film Criticism, the practice of thinking, writing, talking film. This practice is becoming more and more important these days, as cinema is constantly debased by the "ratings" mentality and the "hype" machine.
We also highlight the talents of Terrence Malick, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, and others, in what is, once again .... a bumper issue.
our mission
Senses of Cinema is an online film journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema. It has been set up to address a lack of cinephilic writing in local discourse, that is, writing sprung from the desire to think and write seriously, knowledgeably and passionately about film.
Senses of Cinema is unique in its eclecticism: it encourages articles of all styles (casual, personal, academic, critical, impressionistic and poetic - or a combination of these), analytical approaches (thematic, psychoanalytic, etc) and subject matter. The only criteria that we prescribe are that all articles are demonstrably passionate, serious, intelligent and insightful reflections and/or analyses on the topic of cinema.
Senses of Cinema promotes various divergent "voices" that speak to a wide and diverse audience. It aims to bring together a mix of writers: established and emerging, theorists and un-published cinephiles, filmmakers and film programmers, and local and international writers.
We are particularly committed to discussing art, independent, experimental and third world cinemas (everything from Renoir to Antonioni to Solàs to Oshima to Morrissey to Jost to Friedrich to Snow, feature films as well as short films) , theorising new encounters with digital technologies, and promoting writing that increases one's understanding and appreciation of cinema.
We recognise that an object as ephemeral and ethereal as cinema continues to fascinate, to provoke, to inspire, to turn on, to evolve. And it is in relation to this object that we seek to facilitate and encourage expression and appreciation.
Want to contribute to this journal? Click on the words above to read our guidelines for writers.
about us
Editor - Fiona A. Villella, 26, studied film at Melbourne University and has since gone on to write for many publications, including Metro, Real Time, IF and C'TEQ annotations. She is also an independent filmmaker, has worked around the film scene, and lived and worked in NYC for 6 months. She is also co-curator of the Melbourne Filmoteca and a board member of the Melbourne Cinémathèque. Her favourite directors are Martin Scorsese, Robert Bresson, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Spike Lee, Claire Denis and Julie Dash.
You can email Fiona.
Webmaster / Founding Editor - Bill Mousoulis, 37, is an independent filmmaker with over 60 films to his name, including four low-budget features. He was involved with the formation of the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group in 1985, and was its administrator for six years. Over the years he has also done occasional film criticism, for magazines such as Filmnews, Filmviews, Cantrills Filmnotes, and was a regular member of the FILM REVIEW CREW on 3RRR-FM in the late 80's. His favourite directors are Roberto Rossellini, Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Frank Borzage and Chantal Akerman.
You can email Bill.
Senses of Cinema receives financial assistance from Cinemedia.
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