Australian Autofiction: A Filmmaker Roundtable by Chris Luscri Chris Luscri July 2021 Australian Autofiction Outside of small research studies and articles that have appeared in academic journals, there is an absence of in-depth contextual work around personal filmmaking in Australia. This roundtable, featuring six ke...
Singing songs of sevdalinka in Saidin Salkic’s The Shells Exploding Gently Chris Luscri July 2021 Australian Autofiction Saidin Salkic’s new film The Shells Exploding Gently (2020) begins, characteristically, as a work in extremis. A face, a voice, the camera held close, the corner of a door, the sound of lapping waves. At first,...
So Full Of Shapes Is Fancy: Matías Piñeiro’s Viola Chris Luscri April 2015 CTEQ Annotations on Film The films of Matías Piñeiro represent something of an ouroboros for a writer enthused by the task of categorization and analysis, for the simple fact that they take the perennial “inability to be pinned down” a...