Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent was already in the headspace of her script about a mother exhausted by her disturbed young son when a Melbourne father hurled his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge. This, she thought grimly, was exactly what her movie wanted to explore: how a person — a ...
old-fashioned, even a bit silly. But watch it late at night, alone, and this might be the greatest ghost story of them all, in which the things going bump in the night aren’t out there in the dark, but right inside the room – or inside your ...
‘Once upon a time I fell in love with a cell.’ So recalls the leading cardiologist Sian Harding, when she looked closely at a single heart muscle cell, and she found a ‘deeper beauty’ revealing the ‘perfection of the heart’s construction’. In her book, The Exquisite Machine, she...
Prano’s strong body of shorts have screened at festivals including BFI London Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, UKMVA’s, Sitges Film Festival and Melbourne Int’l Film Festival. She was one of 17 filmmakers selected for the BFI Network@LFF 2017 which identified original new voices, ...
and, since her recent move to Melbourne, also the editor of Australian Hi-Fi magazine. During her 10+ years in the hi-fi industry, she has reviewed all manner of audio gear, from budget amplifiers to high-end speakers, and particularly specialises in headphones and head-fi devices. In her...
"A vein in a mummy" De Quincey's narcotic metropolis was the psychogeographic template for drug writers who followed in the nineteenth century: Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire in Paris; the founder of bohemian journalism and "Australian Gothic," Marcus Clarke, in colonial Melbourne. His...
Up at Hell Ridge outside a small town on the outskirts of Melbourne, Parker Richardson sits on the banks of the King Parrot Creek, ready for a quiet two-week camping trip. A much-needed escape after the death of his mother, separation from his long-time girlfriend, and the sudden loss...
Maybe, beneath that confident and impressive exterior, the man was actually quite fragile. Can’t say now. Couldn’t say then. But it was certainly odd. In my mind’s eye, I could still see the blackboard in that seminar room. It was covered in circles and arrows but only one phrase...
My name is Matthew Haines from Melbourne, Australia. For me, horror is a genre that unveils the person I could become if my world became unhinged. I could be the guy who says to you “Stay here, I’ll go get the car. This will all be over soon. I’ll be back in a minute…....
Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent was already in the headspace of her script about a mother exhausted by her disturbed young son when a Melbourne father hurled his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge. This, she thought grimly, was exactly what her movie wanted to explore: how a person — a ...