Bigger than life, or stranger: Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela: Part II Thomas Austin May 2022 Feature Articles Vitalina Varela (2019) is the seventh feature film by the Portuguese director Pedro Costa. It tells the true story of a woman from Cape Verde who trav...
Fire Machines: Titane and the Pyrotechnics of Love Emmalea Russo May 2022 Feature Articles “…it shall be revealed by fire.” - Corinthians 3:13 “If our aim is to explore the farthest potentialities of being, we may well opt for the disorder...
Cringing Violently: Reparative Watching, Phenomenology and Discomfort in Australian Cinema Caitlin Wilson May 2022 Feature Articles The seminal Australian film Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971) opens with a sweeping, circular pan around a desert landscape. It begins in silence, b...
Deleuzian Rumblings: Residue by Desire Machine Collective Vedant Srinivas May 2022 Feature Articles Desire Machine Collective (DMC) is a collaboration between artists Mriganka Madhukaillya and Sonal Jain, based in Assam (India). Inspired by the writi...
Acts of Faith: On Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven, 2021) Peter Verstraten May 2022 Feature Articles Several reviewers have described Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven, 2021) as a lesbian nunsploitation drama. Reports about the film, which had its world premi...
‘Is The Power of the Dog a New Zealand film? National Identity, Genre and Jane Campion’ Alfio Leotta & Missy Molloy May 2022 Feature Articles The Power of the Dog premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2021. In a short time, however, much has already been written about writer-...
Traumatising the floating space of desire: how hotel spaces locate the painful passion of dislocated lives Nashuyuan Wang May 2022 Feature Articles The hotel space is one of the most uncanny products of the modern world. On the one hand, it accommodates leave and stay, transit and temporary spatia...
The Experimental Propagandist: Frank Capra and the Shape of Truth Richard Sowada January 2022 Feature Articles At first pass, placing Frank Capra into the position of a major figure in the experimental and avant-garde continuum may seem counter intuitive in the...
Heil Darling: a story of lips that haven’t laughed Pablo Gonçalo January 2022 Feature Articles Billy Wilder in the ‘30s In 1938, Billy Wilder was 32 years old and had been in America for five years. Born to a family of Polish Jews in the Austro...
The Night Shift: Woman as Outlaw Hero in The Man I Love Rob Nixon January 2022 Feature Articles How do you approach a Classic Hollywood character like Petey Brown? She solves everyone’s problems, slaps men around and disarms them – physically and...
Smooth Digital Reveries: On Proto-Vaporwave and The Flying Luna Clipper Dechlan Cochran January 2022 Feature Articles There are countless films that peddle in the reification of dreams, and countless filmmakers for whom that is their primary mode. From David Lynch’s p...
Promising Young Woman and the cinematic renegotiation of gender in rape-revenge Joy McEntee January 2022 Feature Articles This article was peer reviewed. Introduction How do we keep the past alive without becoming its prisoner? How do we forget it without risking its r...
