In the beginning…

Kathryn Kelly: Applespiel, Jarrod Duffy Is Not Dead

Unravelling McFamily-sized myths

Luke Goodsell: Kitty Green’s Casting JonBenét

Travelling doco fest fights corruption

Ann Deslandes: Ambulante film festival, Mexico City

Plotting a cinémathèque

Tina Kaufman

Tina Kaufman reflects on previous attempts to establish a cinémathèque in Sydney, a stop gap and a much-needed new proposal for a city with an underdeveloped screen culture.

Never tilt your chair back on two legs

Laura Halligan

Leading percussionists Louise Devenish, Leah Scholes and Vanessa Tomlinson combine to realise theatrical scores by Kate Neal and Mauricio Kagel with virtuoso playing and a highly tuned sense of comedy.

Fresh plot for a cinémathèque

Tina Kaufman: proposal for a Sydney cinémathèque

Table manners, dressage & music

Laura Halligan: Never Tilt Your Chair Back On Two Legs

DVD: Jim Jarmusch, Paterson

US auteur Jim Jarmusch’s latest, Paterson, with Adam Driver, is out on DVD: a thoughtful film of intense stillness and loveliness, a portrait of a working class New Jersey suburb and an ode to the art that exists in everyday moments created by ordinary people. Critic Annabel-Brady Brown writes that “the film’s greatest charm comes, […]

The Simpsons will save us

Ben Brooker: STCSA & Belvoir, Anne Washburn’s Mr Burns

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…”