Tara Grace reflects on themes of loss and circularity in a standout Melbourne Cinémathèque season.

On the politics and aesthetics of Nick Joaquin’s landmark play, and what its 1965 film adaptation ignores.

Dylan Rowen observes and queries the meaning of home throughout the Belgian director’s vast, inimitable body of work.

Fred Pryce examines the aesthetics of the body camera within a lineage of ‘immersive’ propaganda and surveillance technologies.

In another instalment of our partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Liên Ta reflects on the September season’s miracles and tragedies.

Sydney Leoli Reyes draws on the sights and sounds of four Filipino masterworks, which screened in October and November as part of the Melbourne Cinémathèque’s season ‘Marx, Melodrama and Marcos: Li…

In this 1950s collaboration between blacklisted filmmakers and miners’ rights activists, women are key to the fight for workers’ liberation.

Oscar Bloomfield speaks with the visionary interdisciplinary artist about his very first film, hearing music everywhere, and being present.

The Palestinian filmmaker, writer, and liberatory archivist discusses buried histories, resisting the temporality of the news cycle, and her upcoming documentary, ‘The Lost Film of My Mother.’

In director Benny Safdie’s first solo feature, Dwayne Johnson embodies the contradictions of mixed martial artist Mark Kerr with a strikingly light touch.

<p><strong>STATIC VISION AND ROUGH CUT PRESENT</strong></p><p>A mutual aid benefit film screening of Azza El-Hassan's <em>Kings and Extras: Digging for a Palestinian Image</em> (2004) &amp; Jean-Luc G...

In a work of short fiction commissioned as part of our collaboration with the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Laetitia Um unearths latent desires in Seijun Suzuki’s ‘Branded to Kill’ (1967).

Three writers absorbed by the inter-disciplinary, creatively respond to three unique seasons at Melbourne’s coolest film society: The Cinémathèque.

Michelle Huang speaks with the filmmaker and TEN DAYS collective member about collaboration, intergenerational love and learning, and refusing assimilation.

The Australian actor reflects on the joys and anxieties of her most formative roles, from her breakthrough in ‘Ghost Ship’ to her latest turn in the homegrown romantic comedy ‘One More Shot.’…

Indigo Bailey on resisting the film industry’s regime of complacence.

Indigo Bailey on resisting the film industry’s regime of complacence.

Philippa Hawker speaks with the prolific critic, screenwriter, and director about his latest art world-set feature, the intuitive turns in his career, and collaborating with auteurs including Jacqu…

In two Resnais films screened this June as part of the Melbourne Cinémathèque’s season ‘Rebellious Muse: Delphine Seyrig as Actor, Director and Activist,’ Seyrig wavers between the mislaid past and…

Indigo Bailey speaks to the ‘All That’s Left of You’ writer-director about its epic road to completion amidst the escalation of Israel’s genocidal regime, channelling real-life solidarity and grief…

Andréas Giannopoulos speaks to the inventive filmmaker about her punk anti-Western ‘Harvest,’ reckoning with the machinations of history, her experiential creative process, and her fears and hopes …

Austin Lancaster explores the rough-hewn indie game’s resonances with the cinematic nightmares of Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei.

Screened at the inaugural Brunswick Underground Film Festival, Kamal Aljafari’s resounding work of documentary bricolage implodes Zionist ideologies from deep within.

Charles Carrall speaks with the restorer of Charis and George Schwarz’s pioneering sex films about lifting them from obscurity, the history of Australian censorship, and the couple’s hardcore artis…

Indigo Bailey spotlights Daniel Tune’s inspired debut feature ‘Malls,’ which screens alongside the works of his Moviejuice comrades, Gabriel Bath, Aubrey Winslow, and Jack Langford, at the inaugura…

The ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise’s latest instalment is a faltering joyride, which nevertheless offers valuable reflections on real-world spectacles.

Indigo Bailey speaks with the multi-skilled El Pampero Cine filmmaker about her debut feature, ‘Ostende’ (2011), and its reverberations throughout her oeuvre.

Virat Nehru talks to writer-director Matthew Rankin and co-writer Ila Firouzabadi about the joys of making art with your friends, embracing fluidity, navigating loneliness, and more.

Virat Nehru talks to writer-director Matthew Rankin and co-writer Ila Firouzabadi about the joys of making art with your friends, embracing fluidity, navigating loneliness, and more.

Three days of underground cinema mayhem, May 30-June 1, in the heart of Brunswick West, BUFF is Melbourne's new home for cult, outsider film from emerging and established talent.

Diop employs a magical realist mode to examine colonial legacies in this inventive documentary, which traces the repatriation of 26 artefacts from Paris to Benin.

Dylan Rowen talks to the debut filmmaker about her upending emotional odyssey, crafted from archival vlogs, poetic influences, notes app meditations, and the indelible rhythms of urban life.

A touching portrayal of migrant womanhood and a lurid, supernatural feast, Parish Malfitano’s second feature bends genre with ravishing success.

Charles Carrall writes of the star’s profound communion with creatures as the axis of her life both on and off-screen.

We talk to the Cinema Reborn programmers about the festival’s ethics and origins, the magic of sharing new restorations of classic and underseen works of exceptional, world-spanning cinema, and wha…

Andréas Giannopoulos speaks to two of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s close collaborators about the unique genesis of ‘GIFT,’ the work’s improvisational form, and not taking the relationship betwee…

This joint venture from Alex Garland and first-time director Ray Mendoza is an exercise in memory that suffers from a lack of perspective.

Cristóbal Escobar presents a conversation between the collaborators about their intuitive approach to filmmaking, the spaces between documentary and fiction, and unfolding the unconscious onscreen.…

Richard Gere strolls through a minefield of memories in the latest from writer-director Paul Schrader.

Indigo Bailey speaks to the Australian writer-directors about the inspirations and collaborations underpinning their moody, genre-melding futuristic thriller.

In the first entry of our new column about the thresholds of the cinematic and the virtual, Austin Lancaster explores the fruitfully uncanny depths of video game performances.

In the first entry of our new column about the thresholds of the cinematic and the virtual, Austin Lancaster explores the fruitfully uncanny depths of video game performances.

Ivana Brehas speaks to the duo about the relativity of being a David or a Margaret, turning an early 2000s censorship controversy into a comedic stage show, and their own viewing habits.

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Indigo Bailey speaks to the filmmaking team about collaboration, collectivity, digital memory, Torajan approaches to death and dying, and more.