I’m never going to have my Zoe. How do you mourn someone who never existed? Jean M Gordon is a young writer from Sydney who has written works for the popular Short and Sweet festival (what an important haven for young writers that festival is) as well as several short stories. Here she tackles the complex subjects […]
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Skeleton$ – music love from New York City
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It’s a music day today. I”ve got some reviews to sort and without a doubt the best part of that job is heading into a bands background and doing some research. Tracing a musical path to see how influences affect sound. Today’s meanderings have brought me back to Skeleton$ and I realised I haven’t ever […]
Rope – Hitchcock tricking you into seeing what’s “there” when it’s the unspeakable “there.”
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I’ve had to watch a slew of Hitchcock in the last few weeks for work, and although I have seen so many of them I confess to having a marvellous time. I can’t really pin point a very favourite Hitchcock film, but I will say Spellbound, Rebecca and Rope are the front-runners at this point. […]
The Lighthouse – Alison Moore feels her way in the dark by scent. (Booker Prize Short List)
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“Do you know,” said his mother, “How much you bore me?” There was a pause and then his father quietly packed away the picnic. Snapping shut the cool-box lid, he stood and looked at his wife. Futh watched the gulls fighting over the remains of their lunch, and then he looked down at his hand […]
Room – Peter Malicki locks us all up and asks the hard questions. (Sydney Fringe Festival)
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Throughout the performance of Room you will hear several films referenced. Cube, Saw, and The Matrix are some of them. All these films deal in some way with our abilities to observe ourselves within a stylised reality that has been created for us. They are each about the discovery that what we thought about our […]
The Fourth Dimension – Korine, Fedorchenko and Kwiecinski take us to another place. (Sydney Underground Film Festival)
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As I’m saying this forget I’m saying this but then do it. When Grolsch Film Works and VICE Films took it upon themselves to produce a film about The Fourth Dimension, they decided the best way to do this was administer the request to three film makers in the form a set of rules they were to follow […]
Felt – Maxine Funke and the lightness of the subterranean touch.
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I wanted to add my two cents the hype swelling around Maxine Funke’s new album Felt. This is a laid back folksy LP from the woman who fronted The Snares and produced the beautiful album Lace in 2008. It’s a New Zealand production (from a New Zealand chickie) and is out through Epic Sweep Records. I’m not […]
Skios – Michael Frayn and the perils of probability (Booker Prize Long List)
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Well he would work it out for himself a he went along, he wouldn’t be able to stop himself. Sadly. Because for the moment he was a living metaphor of the human condition. He knew not whence he came from nor whither he was bound, nor what manner of man he was, nor why he […]
Keyhole – Guy Maddin dreams of Ulysses (Sydney Underground Film Festival)
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The official site for Guy Maddin’s Keyhole has this to say about the film: After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot […]
The Day the Galaxy Inevitably Exploded and Died – Ildiko Susany explores what’s left when nothings left.(Sydney Fringe Festival)
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Can you hear that silence? It frightens me. I can hear the death of the stars. And so opens the enormously ambitious first work by play write Ildiko Susany, an extremely talented young woman from Brisbane in Sydney with her play for the Sydney Fringe Festival. It is on at the charming and cozy King Street […]
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