Keywords: Other Film Festival
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 August 2010
1 Comment
Aaron initially rationalises his sexuality as
a test from God, a test that priveleges him, as it gives him an
opportunity to prove his resilience. Ultimately his affair with a younger man is rather more serious than
simply a rebellion against an oppressive ultra-orthodox society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 05 August 2010
6 Comments
Mother Fish recreates the journey by sea of a group of Vietnamese refugees. During an election campaign where both major parties are trying to win votes
with prejudicial rhetoric about 'border protection', a bit of truth and
humanity is just what's needed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 15 July 2010
3 Comments
Sydney filmmaker Claire McCarthy spent two months working among
Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. Like many Westerners with egalitarian pretensions, the characters in her film The Waiting City arrive in India bearing a
tourist's naivety.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 June 2010
Adoption is shown to be a tumultuous process, as joyful and painful in
its own way as pregnancy and birth. Lucy is unable to
conceive, but suspects that the motherly bond is about much more than
biology. Her husband Joseph, by contrast, values biology greatly.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 10 June 2010
4 Comments
Nicky is curled up asleep on the couch. She is an innocent, and we feel affection for her. But as the camera pans around, we realise we have been sharing Andrew's leering perspective. The scene foreshadows Animal Kingdom's most appalling atrocity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 April 2010
In comics, the X-Men's 'mutant' powers make them the target of bigotry. They function as a metaphor for homosexuals and other persecuted minorities. In Micmacs, Bazil, ostracised from his 'normal' life by a bizarre crisis, also finds himself on the margins of society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 March 2010
1 Comment
Dave Hughes' presence in the line-up is likely justified more by ratings potential
than by any insights he might offer. The good will inherent to The 7pm Project's presentation makes it
a positive alternative to other more lecherous, leach-like current
affairs programs.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 December 2009
1 Comment
Back in March, I strolled the streets of Fitzroy in Melbourne's inner
north with Warwick Thornton, trying to find a quiet spot for an
interview. Two months prior to the release of his feature debut,
Samson and Delilah, Thornton was quietly hopeful his film would be positively received.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 10 December 2009
4 Comments
Max has an erratic imagination, and is prone to extremes
of emotion. There are hints of mental illness, but, really, he is simply Every Child. Following a ferocious fight with his mother, he flees into fantasy and becomes king to a group of melancholic monsters.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 September 2009
Roo makes a quick buck starring in a porn film. Trisha and Katrina are arrested for shoplifting. Orton and Stacey
are runaways from an untenable home
life. Blessed finds hope in the cracks between mothers and their teenage children.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 20 May 2009
10 Comments
I only met Bud Tingwell once. Like so many others, I went away the
better for the brief encounter. But the meeting also led me to ask
questions about what matters, and how we should nurture it in
Australian society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 September 2008
1 Comment
In 1932, Todd Browning's Freaks sought to unsettle with the 'otherness' of its circus sideshow performer characters. A modern-day festival of films by and about people with disability emhasises not otherness, but humanity.
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