• Features
  • Festival Reports
  • Book Reviews
  • CTEQ
  • Great Directors
  • Great Actors
  • Special Dossiers
  • Past Issues
  • Podcast
  • Support us on Patreon
Search
Senses of Cinema logo
  • Dossiers
  • Features
    Random
    • Does Laughter Make the Crime Disappear?: An Analysis of Cinematic Images of Hitler and the Nazis, 1940-2007

      Steven Ball
      September 2009
      Feature Articles
    Recent
    • A Face in the Crowd: Ritual, Mythological and Political contexts in Stranger and the Fog

      Amir Hossein Siadat
      November 2023
    • Consensus Empire: Empowering the Spectator through Letterboxd Reviews

      Tyler Thier
      November 2023
    • We Can’t Save The Victims: Hauntology in Tony Scott’s Déjà Vu

      Aryan Tauqeer Khawaja
      November 2023
    • Situating Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Good Boys Use Condoms

      Oliver Kenny
      November 2023
    • Songs of Joy and Melancholy: On My Darling in Stirling

      Frankie Kanatas
      November 2023
    • Film Criticism and the Grotesque: A Very American Tár & an Oz Elvis

      Laleen Jayamanne
      August 2023
  • Interviews
    Random
    • Piaffe: Interview with Ann Oren

      Steven Ball
      January 2023
      Interviews
    Recent
    • An Interview with Delphine Girard

      Gary M. Kramer
      November 2023
    • Writing Like Water: An Interview with Paul Preciado

      Mike Hoolboom
      November 2023
    • Mapping Global Horror: Academic roundtable

      Amanda Barbour
      November 2023
    • Mapping Global Horror: Filmmaker roundtable

      Amanda Barbour
      November 2023
    • Our Body is a Battleground: An Interview with Claire Simon

      Öykü Sofuoğlu
      November 2023
    • “Irritation Is the Most Important Tool Any Artist Has”: An Interview with Jessica Hausner

      Jaimey Fisher & Gerd Gemünden
      November 2023
  • Great Directors
    Random
    • Hitchcock, Alfred

      Steven Ball
      July 2005
      Great Directors
    Recent
    • Rou, Aleksandr

      Deborah Allison
      November 2023
    • Woo, John

      Jeremy Carr
      November 2023
    • Thompson, J. Lee

      Jeremy Carr
      May 2023
    • Beresford, Bruce

      Benjamin Kooyman
      May 2023
    • Fosse, Bob

      Sherry Johnson
      January 2023
    • Cimino, Michael

      Giampiero Frasca
      January 2023
  • Great Actors
    Random
    • Bogart, Humphrey

      Steven Ball
      May 2023
      Great Actors
    Recent
    • Taylor, Elizabeth

      Gabrielle Stecher
      November 2023
    • Stanwyck, Barbara

      Eloise Ross
      August 2023
    • Divine

      Jacob Agius
      October 2022
    • Lansbury, Angela

      Joy McEntee
      May 2022
    • Caine, Michael

      Wheeler Winston Dixon
      May 2022
    • Garbo, Greta

      Jeremy Carr
      May 2022
  • Festival Reports
    Random
    • Standing on the Edge: The 15th Revelation Perth International Film Festival

      Steven Ball
      August 2012
      Festival Reports
    Recent
    • In Search of Indie’s Soul: Chinese Independent Cinema Today and Beyond

      Xiang Fan
      November 2023
    • Amiko haunts the 23rd Nippon Connection

      Roger Macy
      November 2023
    • Notes From The 26th San Francisco Silent Film Festival

      Jonathan Mackris
      November 2023
    • Magnetizing and still Putting on Weight – the 37th Il Cinema Ritrovato

      Roger Macy
      November 2023
    • Dealing with the past, and present, at the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival

      Randy Malamud
      November 2023
    • 76th Locarno Film Festival: Culture on the Edge, Tumbling Into Futures Unknown

      Jaimey Fisher
      November 2023
  • Book Reviews
    Random
    • Bergman, Skolimowski and European Modernism: Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence: Pictures in the Typewriter, Writers on the Screen by Maaret Koskinen Jerzy Skolimowski: The Cinema of a Nonconformist by Ewa Mazierska

      Steven Ball
      October 2010
      Book Reviews
    Recent
    • Facing the Other: Keyvan Manafi’s The Eye of the Cinematograph: Levinas and Realisms of the Body

      M. Sellers Johnson
      November 2023
    • A Man of Genius Has Been Seldom Ruined But By Himself: Ethan Warren’s The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson

      Hannah Bonner
      November 2023
    • The Rebellious and the Rigorous: The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973), by Daniel Fairfax

      Tony McKibbin
      August 2023
    • A Journey through Serge Daney’s Cinema House

      Emmanuel Bonin
      August 2023
    • Bloody, Raging Females: Five Books Examine Contemporary Feminist Horror Films

      Holly Willis
      May 2023
    • Cinematic Bottom-Feeding: Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies, by Matthew Strohl

      Sam Woolfe
      May 2023
  • CTEQ
    Random
    • The Lady Eve

      The Lady Eve

      Steven Ball
      March 2003
      CTEQ Annotations on Film
    Recent
    • Silver City

      Grace Boschetti
      November 2023
    • The Golden Cage: Ayten Kuyululu and Australian Cinema

      Adrian Danks
      November 2023
    • Twice a Man

      Darragh O’Donoghue
      November 2023
    • A Rainha Diaba

      Mateus Nagime
      November 2023
    • No longer lost, now remembered: A conversation with Rafael de Luna Freire about Antes, o Verão

      Eloise Ross
      November 2023
    • The Red Light Bandit

      Guilherme Carréra
      November 2023
  • Support Senses
  • About Senses of Cinema
    • Contact Us
    • Staff
    • Thank you to our Patrons
    • Style Guide
  • Latest
  • Past Issues
  • World Poll
  • Podcast
  • Advertisers
  • Proposals
  • Call for Contributions
  • Shop
  • Subscribe
more articles... more articles... more articles... more articles... more articles...

Author Steven Ball

Steven Ball

Steven Ball is an artist working across audio-visual media and performance. He is Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins in London, where he was instrumental in developing the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection

Post-Colonial Film Avant-Garde

Beyond the Cringe: Australia, Britain, and the Post-Colonial Film Avant-Garde

Steven Ball
March 2016
Contemporary British Experimental Film & Video
For some decades there has been two-way traffic between the avant-garde film worlds of Australia and the UK. Australian artists arrive from a local scene that continues to resonate with the influences of an ava...

D’Est: Spectres of Communism

Steven Ball
May 2013
CTEQ Annotations on Film
In Ken McMullen’s 1983 film Ghost Dance, Jacques Derrida, improvising the role of a professor, is asked by Pascale Ogier, improvising the role of a student, whether he believes in ghosts. Derrida answers: That...

Turning and Unfolding: Personal Reflections on Cantrills Filmnotes

Steven Ball
October 2010
Arthur and Corinne Cantrill Dossier
The trouble with archives is their lack of completeness. The mal d’archive, the archive fever that troubled Freud as explicated by Derrida (1), is in part the anxiety of the imperative of completeness, the need...
article placeholder

Material Damage: The Films of Dirk de Bruyn

Steven Ball
July 2005
CTEQ Annotations on Film
1. Material The low grain of the sound of Dirk de Bruyn's voice weaves through many of the films he made in the 1990s. Mike Hoolboom characterises this voice as providing an “inner monologue and conscience”,...
article placeholder

Spinning Straw into Gold: Four Works by Jürgen Reble in the New Medium of Film

Steven Ball
July 2004
CTEQ Annotations on Film
Rumpelstilzchen (1989 Germany 15 mins) Source: Light Cone Filmmaker: Jürgen Reble Zillertal (1991 Germany 11 mins) Source: Light Cone Filmmaker: Jürgen Reble Das Goldene Tor/The Golden Gate (1992 Ge...

Established in Melbourne (Australia) in 1999, Senses of Cinema is one of the first online film journals of its kind and has set the standard for professional, high quality film-related content on the Internet.

Senses of Cinema was founded on stolen lands. We acknowledge the sovereignty of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation and support all Aboriginal people on their paths to self-determination.

 

© Senses of Cinema 2019

Staff Members

Editors:

César Albarrán-Torres • Tara Judah • Abel Muñoz-Hénonin • Fiona Villella • Nace Zavrl

Contributing Partner

Donate to Senses

 

Click here to make a donation. If you are an Australian resident, any donations over $2 are tax deductible.

 

Search

  • About Senses of Cinema
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy
  • Proposals
  • Advertisers
  • Staff