Author John Hughes

Within the archive meaning exists in a state that is both residual and potential. The suggestion of past uses coexists with a plentitude of possibilities. Unpacking Peter Butt’s film Final Rendezvous (2020) a...

“Centenaries are strange institutions often with complex purposes (sometimes) wonderfully simple minded.” – C. J. Clarke “This 80-minute comedy – well it is funny most of the time – is an entertaining and a...

Amongst Equals has never been released, and while several iterations found their way to the screen in the early 1990s, the film has yet to be completed. Instead, wrecked and stranded on a reef of competing impe...

Film co-ops were born out of necessity – both economic and political. During the 1960s and 1970s, avant-garde and experimental cinema, “expanded cinema” and varying strands of independent filmmaking sought to g...

An essay film, staged as a short drama deploying a first person, diary film narration over exquisitely designed object oriented “still life” tableaus, Gillian Leahy’s My Life Without Steve (1986) was a sensatio...

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 ...