In the Warmth of a Frozen Sun: Anthony Chen on The Breaking Ice
Critics Campus participant Đăng Tùng Bạch speaks to director Anthony Chen about his latest feature, an exploration of the burning passion of youth in a cold climate.
By Đăng Tùng Bạch | 22 Aug 2023
Hope’s Waiting Room: Alice Englert on Bad Behaviour
Critics Campus participant Indigo Bailey speaks to actor turned writer/director Alice Englert about her retreat-set black comedy and how its complicated characters were shaped.
Indigo Bailey
19 Aug 2023
Following the Money: Robert Connolly on The Bank and the Australian Film Industry
Critics Campus participant Kevin Bui speaks to director Robert Connolly about his newly remastered debut feature, 2001 Australian economic thriller The Bank.
Kevin Bui
18 Aug 2023
Tiger Stripes – Four Ways
Amanda Nell Eu’s coming-of-age body horror Tiger Stripes gets the critical treatment from four of our Critics Campus participants: Christy Tan, Kevin Bui, Đăng Tùng Bach and Erika Lay.
17 Aug 2023
Realising Desire: Choices and Sexuality in Ira Sachs’s Passages
Critics Campus participant Charles Carrall analyses the messy ménage à trois at the heart of Ira Sachs’s film, in which sex provides plenty of questions and few answers.
Charles Carrall
17 Aug 2023
Adventures Against Boredom: Nick Pinkerton on The Sweet East
Critics Campus participant Lauren Collee speaks to critic and The Sweet East screenwriter Nick Pinkerton about the film’s artistic priorities, literary inspirations and enigmatic protagonist.
Lauren Collee
16 Aug 2023
Multicultural Arts Victoria’s Picks for MIFF 2023
Multicultural Arts Victoria shares their top picks of MIFF 2023 films by filmmakers who have centred the stories of culturally diverse communities authentically and with lots of heart.
Multicultural Arts Victoria
15 Aug 2023
An Abundance of Love: Romantic Triangles in Past Lives, The Breaking Ice and Passages
Critics Campus participant Eric Jiang discusses three MIFF films that each deal with love triangles using different narrative approaches – presenting these situations as variously damaging, ambiguous and powerfully transformative.
Eric Jiang
15 Aug 2023
Time for Reflection: Master Gardener and the Late-style Transformation of Paul Schrader
Critics Campus participant Kevin Bui examines Paul Schrader’s shift away from narratives of retribution and towards tales of personal growth – culminating in one of his most hopeful, if also most difficult, films.
Kevin Bui
14 Aug 2023
Deconstructing Authority: William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Critics Campus participant Christy Tan takes a look at the political and aesthetic questions posed by William Greaves’s radical 1968 docufiction experiment.
Christy Tan
13 Aug 2023
Spectacle of Intimacy: Bodily Landscapes and Resistance in Mast-del and Lotus-Eyed Girl
Critics Campus participant Erika Lay analyses Mast-del and Lotus-Eyed Girl – two short films that each use the body to interrogate how erotic desire and national identity alike can be constructed and subverted via the act of looking.
Erika Lay
12 Aug 2023
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