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Revue
An Enduring Flame: Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu on We Were Dangerous
Critics Campus 2024 participant Alice Bellette speaks to director Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu about her fictionalised representation of the harrowing, defiant and even joyful experiences of girls in New Zealand state care institutions in the mid 20th century.
Inner Worlds: Constance Tsang on Blue Sun Palace
Critics Campus 2024 participant Nicole Cadelina speaks to Constance Tsang about her feature debut, an intimate tale of sisterhood set in a Chinese massage parlour in New York.
Complex Cosmologies: Jodi Wille on Welcome Space Brothers
Critics Campus 2024 participant Tara Kenny speaks to director Jodi Wille about Welcome Space Brothers, a remarkable chronicle of an alternative spiritual community that takes a very different tack from most documentaries of its kind.
Natural Wonders: Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak on Fungi: Web of Life
Critics Campus 2024 participant Austin Lancaster speaks to executive producers Stephen Axford and Catherine Marciniak about the process of creating Fungi: Web of Life, a breathtaking document of mycological metamorphosis.
Lingering Embraces: Raven Jackson on All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Critics Campus 2024 participant Grace Boschetti speaks to Raven Jackson about her debut feature, an immersive and sensitive work that traces moments in a woman’s life across decades.
Dark Illusions: Niki de Saint Phalle’s Un rêve plus long que la nuit
Critics Campus 2024 participant Isabella Gullifer-Laurie writes on Niki de Saint Phalle’s 1976 feature, a surreal journey into a whimsical, frightening and aggressively sexualised dream world.
Sweet Dreams – Four Ways
Ena Sendijarević’s acidic satire Sweet Dreams receives some critical attention from four of our Critics Campus participants: Alice Bellette, Grace Boschetti, Austin Lancaster and Dylan Rowen.
Ripples of Words: Audrey Lam on Us and the Night
Critics Campus 2024 participant Isabella Gullifer-Laurie speaks to Audrey Lam about her library-set experimental feature, a meditative journey through architectural space and pages.
Pushing the Limits: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel on Armand
Critics Campus 2024 participant Dylan Rowen speaks to director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel about the development of – and thinking behind – his tense single-location drama.
Fleeting Images: Matías Piñeiro on You Burn Me
Critics Campus 2024 participant Daniel Tune speaks to director Matías Piñeiro about the aesthetic and thematic departures in his latest work, and how cinema can communicate the pleasure of encountering time-honoured texts.
Tropical Reveries: The Lyrical Intimacies of Viet and Nam
Critics Campus 2024 participant Nicole Cadelina explores the textures and spaces of Trương Minh Quý’s poetic excavation of queer romance and memory.