There are few concepts so telling of the colonial Australian psyche as the ‘outback’. The word itself isolates the expanse it conjures to being behind, away or ...
‘White Crow’––or ‘belaya vorona’––is a Russian expression used to describe a non-conformist, one who does not belong. Though the expression lends itself well to...
Sheets of Sound is the latest project of Perth-based percussion performer and composer Louise Devenish, who has worked with composers Matthias Schack Arnott and...
There is something of a sub-industry in French filmmaking devoted to the production of films designed for an anglophone audience, possibly playing into some sor...
For years, my idea of post-WWII Germany resembled something like this: on the East-side of an arbitrary, but monumental grey wall, was a statewide gulag with ev...
In 2008, a painfully precocious nineteen-year-old Erik Jensen (now editor-in-chief of the Saturday Paper and screenwriter for this film), received a phone call ...
Celeste premiered last year at the Melbourne International Film Festival, and is writer-director Ben Hackworth’s first feature since 2007's Corroboree. Radha Mi...
Towards the end of the exhibition there is a piece by Neil Butler, which shows three stupidly grinning white men in ill-fitting grey suits and the hands of four...
At the basketball final of the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, one grumpy Australian coach watched Spain defeat Russia and take out the gold medal a little too effortl...
This is my first time visiting the Heathcote Cultural Precinct, who have just reopened following recent renovations. The building is a former mental hospital (t...
