When not reviewing films I work for the Melbourne International Film Festival on the programming team. The first part of the 2013 MIFF program was
Category: Film education
River of Life and Death: Women, Religion, Power and Purity in Water
Water is the third and most accomplished film in director Deepa Mehta’s Elements Trilogy, which consists of three films that are thematically linked together rather
The Art and Ideology of Walt Disney
This article was written in response to the Dreams Come True: The Art of Disney’s Classic Fairy Tales exhibition, which was on display at the
Aliens: Mothers, monsters and marines
James Cameron’s 1986 film Aliens contains a fascinating exploration of the way Western culture has traditionally aligned feminine characteristics onto nature while masculine characteristics have
Free Will, Technology and Violence in a Futuristic Vision of Humanity – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the greatest films of all time and it is the director’s most profound and confounding exploration
Spectacle is not the problem; mediocrity is
This paper was originally delivered as part of The age of the spectacle: developing critical thinking in a time of eye candy panel at the VATE
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