Author Jim Knox

16-22 June 2008 Melbourne specifically, and Australia more generally, has for many years suffered from the absence of any kind of dedicated forum for the survey of contemporary and international experime...

March 24–27, 2006 Globe Theatre & Queensland College of Art/Griffith University, Brisbane Though still a relatively recent activity, working with the moving image in the digital age has a history. Thi...

June 20–25, 2006 At this point the Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) is the most prominent screen forum for animation in the country, having arguably supplanted even the competitive progr...

The cultural horizons are less narrowly diminished than when I covered the first Brisbane International Film Festival (as a then-time local, for Filmnews) 12 years back, but Brisbane remains a thriving Petr...

Kiarostami's government-sponsored educational shorts have gained attention thanks to his later, acclaimed features; pointing to their example, Knox argues that some of the most rewarding cinema lies far outside the world of officially recognised "art".

(Manchester: Headpress/Critical Visions, 2003) Jack Stevenson's work as a writer and curator will already be familiar to many Senses of Cinema readers. In the late 1980s, his Pandemonium fanzines gathered to...

A lively overview of the films of Jean Painlevé and his unique contribution to cinema and its possibilities.

Knox discusses the unique sensibility of musician, animator and artist, Dame Darcy, who remains little known in contemporary film culture.

Reflecting on what film culture means to them, these writers raise important questions and reveal significant gaps in terms of the local film cultural landscape.