Category Archive for: ‘Issue 42 – First Release’

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 of ideas etc. in the global inter-communication system, is something that really interests me. Further, I would like to no longer regard an object as an ‘art work’ separate from …

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 and much of the subsequent interest in Ozploitation overlooks the fact that exploitation films existed in Australia since at least the 1910s. In its most basic definition, an exploitation film …

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 before. Benton’s anxiety escalates when she notices John Luponi (Dean Stockwell), the lawyer for the notorious mobster Leo Carelli (Joe Pesci), staring at her, unblinking, from outside the glass door. …

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 via the filmmaker’s Vimeo channel (https://vimeo.com/100185502), and a close viewing is recommended in tandem with reading this commentary. The Illustrated Auschwitz takes a unique approach to the Holocaust film genre, …