Living for the Moment: Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (Mark Hartley, 2008) Martyn Bamber February 2014 Key Moments in Australian Cinema “If you like outrageous cinema, you live and breathe to wait for those weird moments that happen every once in a while in genre cinema, where it’s like, you can’t believe you’re seeing what you’re seeing.” - Q...
Memory’s Chorus: Stories We Tell and Sarah Polley’s Theory of Autobiography Leah Anderst December 2013 Feature Articles Fig 1. Sarah Polley filming with a Super 8 camera in Stories We Tell Near the beginning of Sarah Polley’s newest film, Stories We Tell (2012), an autobiographical documentary about her family and her life h...
Reasoned Arguments: A Conversation with Frederick Wiseman about At Berkeley Darren Hughes December 2013 Feature Articles Frederick Wiseman’s second documentary, High School (1968), was at the time of its release an unprecedented glimpse into America’s public education system. Throughout his career, Wiseman has bristled at the ter...
Ethics in the Immersive Documentary John Dentino December 2013 Feature Articles An elderly Cajun recalls his life spent in the Louisiana bayous for decades as he has struggled to survive on the meager income of a crabber and oysterman. He breaks down, confessing, “It’s my whole life; it’s ...
Everything is Under Control: Ai Weiwei’s Film Curation at the 11th CPH:DOX Pamela Cohn December 2013 Festival Reports The case is against the company Fake. …When I came out , I asked: “What is the economic problem?” They said: “This has nothing to do with you, it’s about Fake Company.” But the day before I was released they as...
Protagonists and Perpetrators: The 13th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Roger Macy December 2013 Festival Reports Who is the author of a documentary film? This was just one question that arose repeatedly during the week of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. I’ll give it its full English name just that on...
Cinematic Scar Tissue: An Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer on The Act of Killing Dan Edwards September 2013 Feature Articles Surreal, sickening and profoundly disturbing – The Act of Killing (2012) may not be easy to watch, but it has turned the documentary form on its head. The film explodes documentary conventions firstly by examin...
The Appearance of Appearance: Absolute Truth in Abbas Kiarostami’s ABC Africa Mathew Abbott July 2013 Feature Articles In Ten on Ten, a 2004 documentary featuring ten short scenes in which Abbas Kiarostami speaks in a car on his work in filming 2001’s Ten, itself a ten part movie featuring short video sequences shot entirely in...
“There is still time… brother”: On the Beach and Lawrence Johnston’s Fallout Adrian Danks July 2013 Uncategorized “Swimming”, he told her. “He wants to have a swim.” “Sailing? There’s a race on Saturday.” “I didn’t ask him. I should think he sails. He’s the sort of man who would.” She took a drink of beer. “We could tak...
“Trouble in my brain… everything inside is turning blue…” Lisa French July 2013 Uncategorized In the early eighties, The Sunnyboys were the greatest band on the planet… - Stuart Coupe, Music Journalist (interviewed in The Sunnyboy) Kaye Harrison’s new documentary The Sunnyboy (2013) opens with the d...
The Parallel Universe Haydn Keenan July 2013 Uncategorized June 2013: It’s not often that you find yourself in another world, a parallel universe that’s real, has sentient beings passing through it and you quietly observing. But it’s happening to me more and more. T...
Outsider Documentary and the Technologically Mediated Self: Ferocious Reality by Eric Ames. Carolyn Elerding June 2013 Book Reviews With Ferocious Reality, Eric Ames makes a valuable contribution to the literature on documentary, offering a thoughtful and philosophically adept analytical approach and elucidating it with clarity and restrain...