Mapping Global Horror: Academic roundtable Amanda Barbour November 2023 Interviews Mapping Global Horror: Australia, Japan and Beyond brought world-leading scholars and filmmakers to Wurundjeri country for a two-day conference to navigate how the titular genre moves through time, space and cu...
Mapping Global Horror: Filmmaker roundtable Amanda Barbour November 2023 Interviews At the intersection of theory and practice, Mapping Global Horror: Australia, Japan and Beyond put horror scholars in dialogue with filmmakers and festival producers. This enabled audiences to understand new di...
Polish Animators PiS Off Law and Justice Party Amanda Barbour November 2020 News 50 students and graduates from the animation department at Lodz Film School have mobilized their medium to protest Poland’s Constitutional Court ruling that forces people with uteruses to carry pregnancies to f...
StopTrik from Head to Toe and the Eisenstein International Network Amanda Barbour January 2020 Festival Reports The 9th edition of StopTrik and the inaugural conference of the Eisenstein International Network (EIN) took place, borderline consecutively, in October 2019. StopTrik is a Polish/Slovenian stop motion film fest...
Tricky Women/Tricky Realities and the Body Politic Amanda Barbour July 2019 Festival Reports Vienna is pretty much a combination of The Lord of the Rings and a mental asylum. Tolkienian because of its baroque architecture and contained lunacy due to Stadtpark’s affection for institutional design envelo...
