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.

Critics Campus 2024 participant Dylan Rowen speaks to director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel about the development of – and thinking behind – his tense single-location drama.

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.

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 Daniel Tune investigates Caught by the Tides, a collage-like work that travels through its director’s films and personal archival material to tell a story of separated lovers, lost worlds and out-of-control technological change.

Critics Campus 2024 participant Tara Kenny examines Santosh, which depicts a woman’s attempt to solve a brutal crime while navigating a hostile male-dominated police department – and which shows that good intentions are far from enough to reform a corrupt system.