Essays & Articles

Suburban Fragments: Community and Bricolage in Tim Barretto's Bassendream
World Without a Map: The Flattening Perspective of Jennifer Peedom’s River [excerpt]
The NSFA Restores Collection: 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
Legacy of a Law-breaker: Andrew Dominik's Chopper Turns Twenty
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
Unseen Voices in Abbas Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us
Shortcuts and Balloons: The Aesthetics of Tropfest

Book Chapters

White Pigs and Black Pigs, Wild Boar and Monkey Meat: Cannibalism and War Victimhood in Japanese Cinema
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? (author roundtable)
Now! (1965)

Audio Commentaries

Nobody Knows Blu-ray commentary
Stray Dog Blu-ray audio commentary

Reviews & Annotations

Burning (Eva Orner, 2021)
Burning Cane (Phillip Youmans, 2019)
Caniba (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2018)
A Dollar for the Good Ones (Josh Lee, 2004)
Hit the Road (Panah Panahi, 2022)
Homework (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
The Idle Class (Charles Chaplin, 1921)
Incarceration Nation (Dean Gibson, 2021)
Kitchen Sink (Alison Maclean, 1989)
Midnight Family (Luke Lorentzen, 2019)
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2000)
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004)
Paper City (Adrian Francis, 2021)
A Portrait of Judith Buckrich (Catherine Gough-Brady, 2017; open peer review w/Kath Dooley)
Stuff and Dough (Cristi Puiu, 2001)
Unrelated (Joanna Hogg, 2007)
Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002)
A Woman Captured (Bernadett Tuza-Ritter, 2017)

Blog Archive

Paying to Work: The Perth Film Network and The Action Film Plan
Keeping Australia Safe (From Film Crews)
Separating the Voice From the Face
Begins With Three and Ends With Two
Noble Men in a Cock Forest
Senses of Cinema 2018 World Poll
Senses of Cinema 2017 World Poll
Films by UWA Video Art Students
Nanook Haikus