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Revue
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.

Malu – Four Ways
Pedro Freire’s resonant portrait Malu gets the critical treatment from four of our 2024 Critics Campus participants: Daniel Tune, Isabella Gullifer-Laurie, Nicole Cadelina and Tara Kenny.

Colonial Malaise: Andy Burkitt’s The Organist
Critics Campus 2024 participant Alice Bellette unpacks a gory and Gothic new Australian horror comedy, finding a satirical representation of the present that fails to wholly reckon with the nation’s past.

A Stranger From the Beginning: Radical Contradictions in the Cinema of Yvonne Rainer
Critics Campus 2024 participant Grace Boschetti explores the career of innovative filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, devoting particular focus to her 1974 feature Film About a Woman Who… and its intimate, unorthodox deconstruction of a woman’s conflicting feelings about her relationship.