Review by Ariele Hoffman Sound and Vision: Sarah Duyshart, Emma Lashmar and Ross Manning, Curated by Lauren Simmonds Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Road, Brunswick, 1 – 31 March 2013 It seems everything around us is being translated to a digital state. Tangibility is not as high a value as accessibility and its consequent sharing of … Continue reading »
Greta Harrison is a Melbourne creative who has been writing and producing comedy that could be described as part of a new wave of independent Australian comedy for community TV and web-based content. Picture Skew asked Greta to walk us through some of her burgeoning career experiences to date. Finding comedy in the everyday: taller-than-average … Continue reading »
Lisa Daniel is the Festival Director of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) which recently bumped out of its 23rd year on March 24th 2013. An ‘elder stateswoman’ of film programming and festival directing, Lisa has been in this role for 15 years, which we bet is smidge longer than most in the field. Programming … Continue reading »
Soda_Jerk Soda_Jerk are a Sydney-born, internationally-based, dynamic art duo. Soda_Jerk painstakingly take the detritus and scraps of pop culture, cinema, high and low art and reassemble them into elaborate new narratives which shine a – sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, always affectionate – light on the nature of the moving image. They are video crusaders, whose … Continue reading »
Jean Lizza is the renegade ‘video store’ programmer of fledgling open air cinema The Shadow Electric, located in a picturesque nook of the Abbotsford convent in Collingwood. Try calling The Fisher King, Groundhog Day or Boyz n the Hood ‘shitty films’ and Jean’ll give you a hearty dressing down on the genius of young John Singleton. … Continue reading »
Scott Morrison* Scott Morrison is a sound and video artist who makes audiovisual deconstructions and recompositions of rural landscapes, in both live performances and gallery-based exhibitions. He is represented by Beam Contemporary and you can read more on his website here. 1. Can you tell us a little bit about your art practice, and describe … Continue reading »
Heading into its fourth year of operation, Speakeasy Cinema has undergone several transformations and changes of venue. It has been called a “Gypsy cinema without a home“, somewhat appropriately, given its stock in trade is giving second (and sometimes third, and fourth) life to films without a home – often through creative and dynamic co-programming of … Continue reading »
