Homecomings Mike Hoolboom June 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Homecomings (Dirk De Bruyn, 1988) is a deeply hybrid work, drawing on every part of the artist’s expansive repertoire of film encounters. It blends di...
Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig: A Story Grace Boschetti June 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film In 1977 actress-activist Delphine Seyrig was interviewed by German director Katja Raganelli for a documentary portrait. Reflecting on her screen caree...
Women Talking: Delphine Seyrig’s Be Pretty and Shut Up! Isabella Gullifer-Laurie June 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Anne Sinclair: “So, at the heart of it, your feminism consists of what precisely?” Delphine Seyrig: “In my communication with other women, this is th...
Chamber Music for Solo Voices and Distant Party: Baxter, Vera Baxter Rolland Man June 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film it's the voice that acts, that produces desire and emotion. The voice is stronger than physical presence. It's as important as the face, the eyes, th...
The Same Others: Close Your Eyes Salvador Carrasco June 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film The opening sequence of Cerrar los ojos (Close Your Eyes, Víctor Erice, 2023) made me feel like I was immersed in a Jorge Luis Borges story. Although ...
Víctor Erice-Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences Jonathan Mackris June 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film The release of Víctor Erice-Abbas Kiarostami Correspondences (2007) arrived at a key juncture in the lives of both filmmakers. It represents the exact...
“A country that doesn’t figure on the maps”: Víctor Erice’s La Morte Rouge Adrian Danks June 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Made as part of an extraordinary collaborative exhibition between Víctor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami that was staged in Barcelona, Paris, and Melbourne...
Passing Light: Víctor Erice’s The Quince Tree Sun David Heslin May 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Of all the artforms that represent or evoke reality in various ways, film is the one that speaks the language of memories and dreams: much like those ...
The Spirit of the Beehive Angelo Koulouris May 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Víctor Erice’s debut feature El espíritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive, 1973) begins with a series of children’s drawings accompanied by a ...
Iron and Steele – The Pit and the Pendulum David Melville May 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film It was not that I feared to look upon things horrible, but that I grew aghast lest there should be nothing left to see. – Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit ...
Corpse Bride: The Horrible Dr. Hichcock Ian Olney May 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Nowhere is the essence of Barbara Steele’s cult appeal as the “Queen of Horror” clearer than in The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (Riccardo Freda, 1962). An o...
Lemmings: Tale 1: Arcadia John Hill April 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Individuals without love for life can be born; others may lose it for a short or long time, perhaps for all the life they have left; and finally . . ...
The Cruelty of Time: Amour Alex Williams April 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film In Michael Haneke’s Amour (2012), death is smelt before it is seen. The film opens with a shocking discovery: emergency services breach a sealed Paris...
Cinema of Reflexivity: Hegemonic Masculinity and the Logic of Terror in Haneke’s The White Ribbon Sandra E. Lim March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Das Weisse Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (The White Ribbon, A German Children’s Tale, Michael Haneke, 2009) is set in the fictional village of...
The Honeymoon Killers Martyn Bamber March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Reporting on the Pesaro Film Festival in Italy, 1970, Dan Georgakas proclaimed: The Pesaro films tended to fall into two easy categories, the typica...
Chinatown Alexia Kannas March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film In an essay about the many ways Hollywood cinema has imagined California, Dana Polan tries to remember the cartoon that shaped his childhood vision of...
Just Good Friends, or “It’s OK with me”: Robert Altman and The Long Goodbye Adrian Danks March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Made in the middle of the extraordinary run of eight features Robert Altman completed between 1970 and 1975, The Long Goodbye (1973) is the first of b...
India: Matri Bhumi Darragh O’Donoghue March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film In 1980, the iconic actress-turned-politician Nargis stood up in the Indian parliament and denounced the films of Satyajit Ray for exploiting poverty ...
Viva l’Italia! Jeremy Carr March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Although it is rarely ranked among the most acclaimed or influential of Roberto Rossellini’s films, Viva l’Italia! (1961) was a particularly important...
Early Rossellini: Un pilota ritorna Joseph Sgammato March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Consider the unique case of Roberto Rossellini. Despite his giant reputation as a founder of Italian neorealism, he is still the subject of divided cr...
Overturning the heresy: Joan of Arc at the Stake Grant Bromley March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film “It’s beautiful to be the daughter of God.” – Joan of Arc, in Joan of Arc at the Stake Picking up where Victor Fleming’s final film, the independent...
Il Generale Della Rovere Jonathan Mackris March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film It’s worth mentioning, as a place to begin, that Il Generale Della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini, 1959) is based a true story. There was indeed a jailed ...
The Fate of Lee Khan Shea Gallagher February 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film King Hu’s Yingchun ge zhi fengbo (The Fate of Lee Khan, 1973) marks the director’s return to Hong Kong after seven years in Taiwan – a period that yie...
Come Drink with Me Dana Polan February 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Just about half-way through King Hu’s 1966 Da Zui Xia (Come Drink with Me), the heroine, Golden Swallow (Cheng Pei-Pei) has been wounded by bandits bu...
Raining in the Mountain Darragh O’Donoghue February 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film “There is more to this than meets the eye,” observes police officer Lieutenant Chang Cheng (Chen Hui-Lou), one of the slippery protagonists of Kongsha...
Glimpses of Grace: A Dialogue on King Hu’s Dragon Inn Austin Lancaster & Alex Williams February 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film The following article is structured as a dialogue between its authors. One of the main ways that the two of us engage with film is through conversatio...
A Couch in New York Eloise Ross February 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film A Couch in New York (Chantal Akerman, 1996) is most well-known, it seems, for being not very well received. Upon its release in its titular city, Jane...
Rolling Down That Hill: Robert Bresson’s Four Nights of a Dreamer David Heslin February 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Oh, if only you knew how often I have been in love … with no one, with an ideal, with the one I dream of in my sleep.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Ni...
Brake Fluid Geoff Gardner December 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film When I got to Melbourne University in 1963, Brian Davies had already dropped out and begun what eventually became a stellar career, first in marketing...
Monash ’66 – A Short Annotation on Some of its Making Robin Laurie December 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film I have not seen a print of Monash ’66 for more than 50 years and my memories of the film have a quite a few gaps. Here is what I remember. In 1966 ...
Hey Al Baby Bruce Hodsdon December 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film The below is based on an account of the making of Hey Al Baby by David Minter published in Issue 2 of the Melbourne Film Bulletin, April 1968. In t...
There is Nothing Like Experience Adrian Danks December 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Like many films produced under the auspices of the Melbourne University Film Society (MUFS), Nothing Like Experience (Peter Carmody, 1970) draws heavi...
Molly & Mobarak Tom Zubrycki November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Molly and Mobarak (2003) continues a path I began in the ’90s with Homelands (1993) and Billal (1996) of making observational documentary essays of Au...
Friends & Enemies Tom Zubrycki November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Unlike many films about union history, Friends & Enemies (1987) is not a retrospective account. It was made as a ‘fly on the wall documentary’ – t...
Bran Nue Dae Tom Zubrycki November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In 1990 I started production in Broome on Lord of the Bush (1990), a documentary about the enigmatic figure Lord Alistair McAlpine, who had big ambiti...
Homelands Tom Zubrycki November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Homelands (1993) was a departure for me not only in terms of style, but also in terms of content. It was 1992, and I felt it was high time to explore ...
