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Spear – An Interview with Director Stephen Page
The artistic director of the Bangarra Dance Theatre, Stephen Page, has brought the striking dance performance Spear to the big screen. Having had its world premiere in Toronto last September, the film...
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Fire Song – An Interview with Lead Actor Andrew Martin
A groundbreaking indigenous Canadian film, Fire Song follows a closeted two-spirit teenager, Shane (Andrew Martin), who wishes to leave his Anishinaabe reserve in Northern Ontario to move to Toronto...
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Antichrist – An Interview with Author Amy Simmons
Few films have stirred as much controversy in the past decade as Lars von Trier’s psycho-sexual horror Antichrist (it was only recently, and bizarrely, banned in France), and few appear to have been as...
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Essential Independents 2016 – An Interview with Artistic Director Richard Sowada
Essential Independents is a new festival, hosted by Palace Cinemas, that will screen both bold new voices and old grandmasters of American independent cinema. Ahead of its launch this week, we spoke to...
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Lee Scratch Perry: Vision of Paradise – an interview with director Volker...
We spoke to German director Volker Schaner about his documentary on the life and philosophy of Jamaican reggae and dub pioneer Lee Scratch Perry, entitled Vision of Paradise. The film had its first...
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The Fits – An Interview with Director Anna Rose Holmer
The Fits is a surreal drama about a young boxer named Toni (Royalty Hightower) who joins a drill dance team as its members are stuck down by a strange condition, and the feature debut of Brooklyn-based...
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Hunt For the Wilderpeople – An Interview with Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi is a filmmaker that needs no introduction. The New Zealand director of Eagle vs. Shark and What We Do in the Shadows is a unique filmmaker who’s profile only seems to be getting bigger –...
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Machine Gun or Typewriter? – An Interview with Travis Wilkerson
Travis Wilkerson’s latest experimental feature film, Machine Gun or Typewriter?, screens as part of the new Essential Independents Film Festival across Australia. As we put it in our review, the film...
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Europe, She Loves – An Interview with Jan Gasmann
Jan Gasmann’s Europe, She Loves offers an insightful reflection on the intersection between love and politics in Europe. The blurring of borders and boundaries in Gasmann’s work, along with the line...
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Kiki – An Interview with Sara Jordenö
Sara Jordenö’s Kiki is an energetic yet sobering documentary set in the New York City ballroom circuit, an event-driven scene frequented by African-American and Latino LGBTQ communities. Comprised of...
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The Endless River – An Interview with Oliver Hermanus
Oliver Hermanus’ The Endless River, the third from the South African director, is a slow-burning work that offers palpable reflections on the notion of violence. Tension and restraint are paramount...
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Oyster Factory – An Interview with Kazuhiro Soda
Kazuhiro Soda is a remarkably unique and prolific documentarian; having directed seven films as part of his most recent series since 2007; finding the time to write three books in the same period. From...
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Letters From War: An Interview with Ivo M. Ferreira
Ivo M. Ferreira is the director of Letters From War, which is in competition at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. His third feature, the film is set in Angola during the twilight years of the...
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A Good Wife – An Interview with Mirjana Karanović
Mirjana Karanović has established herself as one of the most important figures in Serbia’s film industry, as well as a deeply influential actress in its surrounding countries. In her career as an...
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Notes on Blindness – An Interview with Peter Middleton
Peter Middleton’s (pictured left with co-director James Spinney) background in visual arts is clear throughout his latest work, Notes on Blindness, which is screening at Sydney Film Festival this year....
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What’s in the Darkness – An Interview with Wang Yichun
Wang Yichun’s What’s in the Darkness, which screened at Sydney Film Festival this year, is a reflective, subtle, and detailed film; and easily one of the strongest movies that played this years...
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The Love Witch – An Interview with Anna Biller
In her second feature film The Love Witch, multi-skilled filmmaker and all-round Renaissance woman Anna Biller—writer, director, producer, editor, production and costumer designer—proves on the back of...
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Queensland Film Festival – An Interview with Festival Director John Edmond
The second year of the Queensland Film Festival continues the style set in 2015, as a purposefully small yet eclectic effort to keep the Brisbane film festival culture alive and well. Directors John...
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Entertainment – An Interview with Gregg Turkington
Darwin-born, US-based comedian Gregg Turkington is best known via his alter-ego, Neil Hamburger; a greasy-haired, sweaty, tuxedoed insult comic, who recites his ‘jokes’ in a blood-curdling whine and is...
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Fear Itself – An Interview with Charlie Lyne
Critic-turned-filmmaker isn’t the most accurate way to describe Charlie Lyne. His movie blog, Ultra Culture, launched in 2008 and soon developed a strong following. The site was known not only for its...
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