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.

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.

Critics Campus 2024 participant Dylan Rowen discusses the reflections on trans and queer experience in I Saw the TV Glow’s existential horror–infused tale of hope and letting go.

Critics Campus 2024 participant Austin Lancaster looks at the intersecting layers of artifice in Miguel Gomes’s fantastical journey through East and South-East Asia, past and present.

In the third instalment of a series in which we shine a spotlight on Critics Campus’s illustrious alumni, we speak to Kristen S. Hé (2015 cohort), Keva York (2017 cohort) and Merryana Salem (2020 cohort) about where their professional paths have led since their participation in MIFF’s incubator program for emerging critics.

Critics Campus participant Christy Tan discusses Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 2001 feature, with particular focus on its subordination of narrative to the evocation of a certain place and time in its protagonist’s life.

Critics Campus participant Charles Carrall speaks to director Sue Brooks about the making of her 2003 feature Japanese Story, shooting the film in the Pilbara and Toni Collette wearing pants.

Critics Campus participant Eric Jiang speaks to writer/director Lila Avilés about her intuitive approach to casting and its central role in creating the immersive, deeply empathetic atmosphere of Tótem.