Affectively Trapped, Fossilised and Fetishised: Early 1990s Melbourne through Stillness, Movement and Music in Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse, 1991) Diana Sandars December 2017 Screening Melbourne In Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse 1991), the photographs of blind central protagonist, Martin, construct multiple Melbournes. Martin’s compulsive photograph...
Leaving Home: Kennedy Miller in Melbourne James Robert Douglas December 2017 Screening Melbourne Kennedy Miller has been located in Sydney since the early 1980s, when its reputation as Australia’s most successful production house was established. ...
Before On the Beach: Melbourne on Film in the 1950s Adrian Danks December 2017 Screening Melbourne “City images are historical creations, and are often more resistant to change than the modernisers anticipate, although the resistance may be strong...
Melbourne’s Capitol Theatre: “The Best Cinema That Has Ever Been Built or Is Ever Likely to Be Built” Lisa French December 2017 Screening Melbourne This article charts the commission given to architects Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin; the cultural as well as national significance ...
Introduction: Screening Melbourne Sean Redmond and Glen Donnar December 2017 Screening Melbourne In the Melbourne City Animal Kingdom feels like a suburban Melbourne version of The Godfather to me. It's epic and Shakespearean in its story, and ...
Uncanny Suburbia, Hauntology and Post-Traumatic Poetics: Conversations with Dirk de Bruyn’s Conversations With My Mother (1990). Glenn D'Cruz November 2017 Screening Melbourne This reflective essay stages a conversation with Dirk de Bruyn’s autobiographical film, Conversations with my Mother’ (1990) in order to foreground th...
Screenwriting Melbourne/s: The Challenges of Re-presenting and Re-creating Melbourne Within a Screenplay’s Flipped-Reality Narrative Stayci Taylor November 2017 Screening Melbourne This article argues that establishing the screen city begins with the script, and the author makes a case study of her own screenplay, set in an alter...
Sonic Disturbance and Chromatic Dissolution: The Cantrills remake Melbourne Tessa Laird November 2017 Screening Melbourne This paper examines the work of Australian experimental film legends, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, who, over a fifty-year period, perfected a range of...
