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Revue
Tuning In: Grace Tan on Audio Technology and Visual Storytelling
In this article published in collaboration with Sennheiser, Grace Tan discusses the importance of sound in her work and her adoption of Sennheiser's EW-DP Wireless Microphone System.
Celebrating Strength and Resilience: An Interview With Shannon Owen
MIFF speaks to Bank Australia customer and filmmaker Shannon Owen about her documentary Left Write Hook, a joint winner of this year’s Intrepid Audience Award.
Riding the Next Wave: An Interview With Jaydon Martin
In the aftermath of director Jaydon Martin taking home the Blackmagic Design Australian Innovation Award at MIFF, we speak to him about his experience of screening Flathead at the festival, and the effect it’s had on his journey as an artist.
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.