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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Between Metamorphoses: Phạm Thiên Ân on Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Critics Campus participant Đăng Tùng Bạch speaks to Phạm Thiên Ân about the making of his Caméra d’Or–winning film and the roles played by location, sound and time in his work.
Heaven Is a Derelict Train Car: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster
Critics Campus participant Lauren Collee discusses the moral ambiguities and absolutes that emerge in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tale of institutional malaise and tentative queer romance.
Arts Access Victoria’s Picks for MIFF 2023
With MIFF 2023 proudly offering a suite of accessibility services and disability-focused stories, Arts Access Victoria’s Fiona Tuomy shares some top picks for the festival.
Carnal Cravings: The Limits of Desire in Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day
Critics Campus participant Indigo Bailey examines the unsettling and controversial combination of horror and sensuality in Claire Denis’s brutal, beguiling 2001 feature.
Yo Soy’s Picks for MIFF 2023
Yo Soy co-founders Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh and Jess Ibacache share their most anticipated picks from MIFF’s 2023 selection of Latin American films.
Immigration Museum’s Picks for MIFF 2023
With MIFF 2023 upon us, some of Immigration Museum’s recent collaborators tell us what films they’re most excited about in this year’s festival.