Although its name may suggest a community initiative or some kind of co-op, The Perth Film Network is a business modelled on Hollywood and aimed at filmmakers with Hollywood-like aspirations, in which everything comes at a price
Read MoreNanook haikus
With apologies.
A quiet weekend
Not much to do around here
Snow eating contest
The strange white guy says
Again, for the camera
Really can't be arsed
A friend challenged me
Spend the afternoon shoeless
Thanks for frostbite, friend
My third eldest son
Jumped me with a wet willy
Harpoon punishment
Slaughter a walrus
Eat that shit sashimi style
With no condiments
Don't need no TomTom
Google Maps is for cowards
Huskies will guide me
Frank Zappa once sang
Don't You Eat That Yellow Snow
The fuck would he know
Blizzard's on its way
The igloo ain't behaving
No complaints from me
Keeping Australia Safe (from film crews)
In early 2011 I was with two friends filming a documentary in Albany, a small town in southwest Australia. One morning we were collecting scenery shots a kilometre or so out of the town centre, near the port. It was just us, a camera and a tripod. We were filming a shot of a food van parked on the roadside when a car pulled up and a man stepped out. He introduced himself as an AFP (Australian Federal Police) counter-terrorism officer and asked what we were doing.
Read MoreSeparating the voice from the face
Toward the start of our trip through Russia in 2009, my girlfriend and I watched more TV than we would've liked. We'd just arrived in St Petersburg by train from Finland. As we settled into our apartment I turned the TV on and flicked through the channels. I couldn't understand a single word but it was trashiest shit I'd ever seen, that much I could understand. It was the pits. A couple of days later I was woken in the early morning by a call from Australia, and was told there'd been a "terrorist attack" on a train heading from Moscow to St Petersburg.
Read MoreBegins with three and ends with two
The following is a transcription, with added images, of a beautiful spoken-word scene appreciation by João Bènard da Costa. It's an excerpt from a longer piece that appears as an extra feature on Second Run's DVD release of Pedro Costa's O Sangue. I've never read or heard anyone talk about a film in this way.
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