Long paddock revelations

Emily Stewart

In Wagga Wagga, Emily Stewart encounters video, sound and installation mapping the threatened ‘long paddock’—the network of forgotten eco-pathways sprawled across Australia.

Stranger With My Face: Discovering Gaylene Preston

Lauren Carroll Harris

Lauren Carroll Harris is taken with genre-bending 1984 and 2003 feminist films by the New Zealand filmmaker, a special guest at this year’s SWMF in Hobart.

Liam O’Brien: Early April (2017)

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Chantal Akerman said that “there is no good documentary without a bit of fiction, and vice versa.” Of the four videos in this Almost Doco collection, Liam O’Brien’s has most in common with cinema in that it’s a sad comedy set in a fictive reality.

Jacobus Capone: Arctic Field Notes (Act 3) (2017)

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A grim reverie. An unspecified climate of concern. Jacobus Capone trawls a stick through indifferent Arctic snow. He’s a slight figure. Crossing from left to right, he leaves little evidence of a trail. This gruelling labour has an outcome, but it’s only implicit.

Frazer Bull-Clark: The Palm Trees of Beverly Hills, New South Wales (2017)

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Artist Frazer Bull-Clark has made what he calls a moving postcard of Beverly Hills, Hurstville, and beyond that, what reads as a picture of the oddity of Australian suburbia. Beverly Hills is a suburb with a largely unknown history even to Sydney residents.

Tiyan Baker: The Witness – Portrait of r/WatchPeopleDie (2017)

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There’s an internet community for everything. You haven’t even dreamed of the niches within niches out there, in the muddy depths of unpublicised YouTube channels and discussion forums. Tiyan Baker’s video portraits of loneliness have won major awards. Here, she turns her attention to create a side-glancing portrait of one internet community.

Jason Phu: Chiang Mai, Thailand

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Our guides by artists to cities around the world return with Jason Phu’s fun introduction to Thailand’s contemporary art city, Chiang Mai, covering galleries, clubs, malls and, above all, food, not least for strong stomachs.

The Deep Archive: 1994, Adam Cullen reviews Free Willy

In 1994, the late great artist Adam Cullen, sensing the film’s innate evil, penned a one-off review of family favourite Free Willy. This is the first in a series of classics from our as yet undigitised 1990s files.

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Jodie McNeilly

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Dancer, research academic and writer Jodie McNeilly likes that writing “lets [her] turn towards the world with acute attention.” Read Jodie’s profile here.

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Erin Brannigan

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Writer and teacher Erin Brannigan’s passionate “motivation in writing about dance and choreography in its many forms is to help it persist into the future.”

The RealTime Archive: Contributors: Cleo Mees

For our archive we’re completing and updating our contributor entries. Writer, teacher and video-maker Cleo Mees reflects on music and dance, Bodyweather and writing “that makes surprising associations and confessions…”