‘A poem needs understanding through the senses,’ John Keats (Ben Whishaw) tells Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) in Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009). ‘The point of diving into a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore, but to be in the lake — to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.’ Keep reading on Screen Education.
‘16 Lovers Lane – we deliver this pop jewel and it brings us nothing. Like, financially, nothing. We may as well have put out a free jazz album,’ says Robert Forster, singer/songwriter of the titular band discussed in Kriv Stenders’ documentary The Go-Betweens: Right Here (2017). Keep reading on Metro.
Although only 3.3 per cent of Australians are Indigenous, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men comprise 29 per cent of male prisoners in the country; women, 34 per cent of female prisoners; and youth, 55 per cent of young prisoners. Between 1991 and 2021, 500 Indigenous people died in custody. At the time of writing, not one of these deaths has resulted in a criminal conviction. These are just some of the facts that inspired Incarceration Nation (2021). Keep reading on Metro.
‘It was a film that everybody was telling me to stop making, the whole time I was making it,’ says director Blue Lucine, referring to her documentary The Eviction, which premiered at the 2018 Antenna Documentary Film Festival. ‘People would say, “No-one’s going to watch it,” or, “The story’s already over.”’ Keep reading on Metro.
Filmed over a ten-year period in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Audrey Napanangka (Penelope McDonald, 2022) is a documentary that grew out of an even longer friendship: that shared by director McDonald and Warlpiri artist Audrey Napanangka Martin, who first met in the 1980s in Lajamanu, a remote community of around 600 people of the Warlpiri nation on the northern edge of the Tanami Desert. Keep reading on Metro.
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