Lynsey Martin’s Formalism: The Original, the Copy and the Clone
Cooking must be the most totally valid art form. Its aim is totally functional. [1] This idea of the social role of the artist as being that of an educator/transmitter…
Prurient Exuberance: Early Australian Sex Hygiene Films and the Origins of Ozploitation
Australian exploitation films that were made since the 1960s have received considerable attention in Mark Hartley’s 2008 documentary, Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! However, Hartley’s film…
Aficionados Americanos: A Study of Painting and Spanish Bullfighting in Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat and Dennis Hopper’s Catchfire
Sitting inside a Los Angeles police station, conceptual artist Anne Benton (Jodie Foster) worriedly bites her nails as she relays the details of a mob crime she witnessed the night…
Flesh Memories: Embodying Personal Trauma Through The Illustrated Auschwitz
The Illustrated Auschwitz, made by Jackie Farkas (now Jackie Wolf) in 1992, is an important Australian experimental documentary. Although originally screened on a film format, it is today accessible digitally…