Articles & Essays
Suburban Fragments: Community and Bricolage in Tim Barretto's Bassendream
World Without a Map: The Flattening Perspective of Jennifer Peedom’s River
NFSA Restores: Floating Life
Shared Suffering: Remembering the Tokyo Firebombing in Adrian Francis' Paper City
Flies on the Locker-room Walls: The Managed Candour of Making Their Mark
Artificial Rain: Control, Precision and Reality in Anthony Chen’s Wet Season
Tokyo Olympiad
Sweet, Sour and Spicy Country: Isolation as Performance in Warwick Thornton’s The Beach
Beyond Borders: Translation and Cultural Authenticity in Hirokazu Koreeda’s The Truth
White Pigs and Black Pigs, Wild Boar and Monkey Meat: Cannibalism and War Victimhood in Japanese Cinema
Legacy of a Law-breaker: Andrew Dominik's Chopper Turns Twenty
Now! (1965)
Front and Centre: Two Documentaries About Adam Goodes
3/11 Cinema
Stop Filming!
Riot and Revenge: Symmetry and the Cronulla Riot in Abe Forsythe’s Down Under
Abandon the Young in Tokyo: Yoshitarō Nomura’s The Demon and Hirokazu Koreeda’s Nobody Knows
The Confused Nation: Hitoshi Matsumoto’s Big Man Japan
What is Kaiju?
Unseen Voices in The Wind Will Carry Us
Shortcuts and Balloons: The Aesthetics of Tropfest