Directors Micheal Dweek and Gregory Kershaw take us into the sparse remote world of Argentine gauchos (and one gaucha).
Continue readingGaucho Gaucho (2024)
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Community to Commercial – Restored Australian Music Videos
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Ray Argall introduced this showing of his personal collection of films from the 80s that he has been restoring.
Continue readingA New Kind of Wilderness (2024)
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This one is a bit of a weepy. I went in thinking it was about off grid living and homeschooling – raising children in nature – but it’s actually as much about grief.
Continue readingLike My Brother (2024)
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Dahomey (2024)
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Teaches of Peaches (2024)
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I am in love with Peaches! I don’t know how I have missed out on this phenomenal woman.
Continue readingOccupied City (2023)
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A four hour documentary is always going to have its challenges. Steve McQueen (Hunger (2008)) takes a deep dive into the recorded history of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam by overlaying a narrated retelling with a river of footage of the city in 2020 and 2021.
Continue readingThe Atomic Tree (VR) (2019)
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Honeyland (2019)
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An amazing narrative built from observational filming over three years. Hatidze lives in a remote abandoned Macedonian village with her elderly mother. She harvest honey from bees she has carefully cultivated and sells it in Skopje.
Continue readingCitizen Kitano (Citizen K) (2020)
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I feel a bit ashamed to say that I can’t remember if I’ve ever seen a film by Takeshi Kitano. I feel that surely I have seen Hana-Bi (1998) or Zatoichi (2003) but from the glimpses in this interesting short documentary by Yves Montmayeur, none really stand out.
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