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Eat That Question – An Interview with Thorsten Schütte
Thorsten Schütte is a German documentary filmmaker. His debut theatrical film, Eat That Question, paints a portrait of American composer, musician, and cultural icon Frank Zappa by creating an...
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The Red Turtle – An Interview with Michaël Dudok de Wit
The Red Turtle is a mythical tale about a nameless castaway who, without uttering a word of dialogue, finds his purpose on the shores of a deserted island. It is the first film to carry the Studio...
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National Bird: Drone Wars – An Interview with Sonia Kennebeck
In an age where the most popular documentaries are streamed and live-Tweeted in the home—Making A Murderer, the works of Louis Theroux, etc—a multi-layered investigation of America’s opaque drone...
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Snow Monkey – A Conversation with George Gittoes
Not long after we launched 4:3, we spoke to George Gittoes at home in the Rockdale Yellow House, during the process of filming what would become Snow Monkey. At 66, Gittoes’ has continued to work with...
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How a Lost Frank Capra Film Was Found and Restored – An Interview with NFSA...
On 5 February 2017, the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra presented the world premiere of the digital restoration of Three Days to Live (1924). Once thought to be lost, a 35mm tinted nitrate...
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Lo and Behold – An Interview with Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog’s dark paean to the internet, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, probes the rapidly shifting and expanding technological horizons of the 21st century. Ahead of the...
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Cameraperson – An Interview with Kirsten Johnson
One of the most striking and original documentary works of 2016, Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson takes short sections from documentary films that Johnson worked on either as cinematographer or director...
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What Happened to Her – An Interview with Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Filmmaker and UCLA academic Kristy Guevara-Flanagan has described her 2016 short What Happened to Her as “a forensic exploration of our cultural obsession with images of dead women on screen,” one that...
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Off Frame A.K.A. Revolution Until Victory: An Interview with Director Mohanad...
Mohanad Yaqubi’s new film Off Frame A.K.A. Revolution Until Victory screened for the first time in France last week at the Cinéma du réel documentary film festival in Paris. To my mind, the film was...
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Making Cujo: An Interview with Author Lee Gambin
While showing little sign of losing their appeal to contemporary audiences, Stephen King film adaptations undeniably had their heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, with a string of movies whose cult appeal...
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Raw: An Interview with Garance Marillier
Coming of age films have often found fertile ground in horror cinema, but few have done it as memorably as Raw, Julia Ducournau’s breakout hit that’s been thrilling queasy audiences since its Cannes...
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Unwrapping the Twin Peaks Plastic: An Interview with Author Franck Boulègue
To call David Lynch’s Twin Peaks a cultural phenomenon feels too feeble a descriptor to capture just how deeply this television series about a murder mystery in small town America has sunk into the...
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Western – An Interview with Valeska Grisebach
Over 10 years since her remarkable debut feature Longing premiered in competition at the 2006 Berlinale, Valeska Grisebach returns to the screen with the Maren Ade co-produced Western, so far one of...
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Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time – An Interview with Arash Kamali Sarvestani...
Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time is, by any measure, a ground-breaking film. Within an Australia context, its value is magnified, it appears to us more confronting, more immediate. The world depicted in...
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Hotel Salvation – An Interview with Director Shubhashish Bhutiani
Hotel Salvation (Mukti Bhawan) is a film that wins you over in its moments of silence. Through the narrative of a multi-generational family drama, director Shubhashish Bhutiani paints an allegory of...
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Wolf and Sheep – An Interview with Shahrbanoo Sadat
Wolf and Sheep is the debut feature from Afghanistan-based filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat, and it marks a major shift in how Afghanistan has been depicted on film. Sadat’s refreshing portrait of her...
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Pop Aye – An Interview with Kirsten Tan
A sense of flux has underpinned Kirsten Tan’s life, with the career of the Singapore-born filmmaker reflecting this. Her first short films, Fonzi and 10 Minutes Later, both released in 2006, were...
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When The Day Had No Name – an Interview with Teona Strugar Mitevska
Her work long-since preoccupied with the instability and uncertainty of both public and personal life in the Republic of Macedonia, Teona Strugar Mitevska has become a symbol of success for a...
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Feminism & Film – A Roundtable Discussion with Curator Susan Charlton
Susan Charlton curated the ‘Feminism & Film’ retrospective program at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. In the 1980s Susan worked in the curation, distribution and promotion of cinema and...
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The Limitations of Cinema – An Interview with Anocha Suwichakornpong
Anocha Suwichakornpong’s sophomore feature By the Time it Gets Dark is underpinned by a subtle complexity. There’s a sense of space framing the characters – from how they interact with one another to...
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