Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women’s Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic the editors December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic The global success of Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook in 2014 put the focus on Australian women filmmakers, simultaneously giving us an opportunity to ex...
Trust Your Instinct: An Interview with Ann Turner Craig Martin December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic Set in the Melbourne suburb of Surrey Hills during the summer of 1958, Ann Turner’s remarkable 1988 debut feature Celia follows eponymous nine-year ol...
The Spectre at the Window: Tracey Moffatt’s beDevil (1993) Kate Robertson December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia’s most successful artists, and has been producing ground-breaking film, photography and video work for almost thirt...
Monsters, Masks and Murgatroyd: The Horror of Ann Turner’s Celia Craig Martin December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic Abstract >> In a recent interview with Ann Turner, she shared with me her journey from disappointment to cordial acceptance of the promotion ...
Who’s Knocking in My Little House? Ursula Dabrowsky’s Inner Demon (2014) Donna McRae December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic Abstract >> In the dead linen in cupboards, I seek the supernatural - Gaston Bachelard For a female filmmaker to forge space in a male domina...
“You’re a frigid bitch and your friend is a homo”: Coming of Age in Girl Asleep Michelle J. Smith December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic Rosemary Myers’ Girl Asleep (2015) is preoccupied with crossing borders, from its medium and genre to its narrative focus on the dreamlike imaginings ...
Making Magic: An Australian Women Horror Filmmakers Roundtable the editors December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic The recent global success of Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook in 2014 put the focus on Australian women filmmakers, and simultaneously gave voice to horro...
