Structuralist Film and the Birth of Surveillance: The 2013 Alternativa Film/Video Festival Dirk de Bruyn March 2014 Festival Reports This second visit to Belgrade, Serbia’s Alternativa Film/Video festival opened up a response to the parallel film histories encountered at last year’s attendance (documented in Senses of Cinema here) through Lj...
24 Tweets Per Second: A Dialogue on Jorge Lorenzo’s On the Road by Jack Kerouac Dirk de Bruyn and Steven McIntyre September 2013 Feature Articles Jorge Lorenzo Flores Garza’s On the Road by Jack Kerouac had its Australian premiere in July this year at the Walker Street Gallery in Melbourne. It screened as part of the 'Outside the Outside' series curated ...
The Wild Blue Yonder Tyson Wils May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Werner Herzog’s The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) defies easy categorisation. It can be described simply as an experimental film or, more specifically, an experimental found footage film. It can also be called a mult...
The Dark Side of Paris: The Second Festival du film fantastique and the Fourteenth Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux Gemma King March 2013 Festival Reports Despite being the world’s biggest tourist destination, Paris still thrums with its own creative energy. Montmartre may now be the realm of cheesy portrait-painters rather than Impressionists and hordes of touri...
Keeping Experimental and “Different Cinema” Alive! An Interview with Marcel Mazé Viviane Vagh December 2011 Feature Articles This year marks the 40th anniversary of France’s first filmmakers’ co-op, the Collectif Juene Cinéma. Marcel Mazé, founder and president, discusses its fascinating history.
Hungarian Rhapsody: The Experimental Forum at the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain April 2009 Festival Reports 14-23 November 2008 This year saw the addition of an “Experimental Forum” to the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The Forum’s six screenings, programmed by Vassilis Bourikas, offered a rare and valu...
Marilyn Times Five Holly Willis March 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Marilyn Times Five (1973 USA 12 mins) Filmmaker: Bruce Conner Mus: “I’m Through with Love”, words and music by Matty Malneck, Gus Kahn, Jerry Livingston, sung by Marilyn Monroe Bruce Conner’s film car...
Expanded Cinema: Intermission: Who is Miss Roder? Penny Webb February 2009 Festival Reports 1–2 August 2008 45 Downstairs, Melbourne The nonsensical title of this series of audio-visual works presented over two evenings during the 2008 Melbourne International Film Festival by Melbourne’s Greys...