From the yearly archives: 2018
The second place we visited at the Biennale is now known as the Welcome Centre, but in my day it was Sacred Heart College where my paternal aunts and cousins went to school as boarders many years ago. I’ve never set foot in the building despite spending six years at Loreto Abbey on the other [...]
Ballarat’s first BOAA was great. We visited on the week-end of 20-21 October 2018. First up, we visited the George Farmer Building in Eureka Street. Locals describe it as a former bacon factory. But I surmise it must have been a smallgoods operation and whilst wandering through it I was trying to work out what [...]
We went to Ballarat to see this, the first of what hopefully will be a biennial event. The image above is Ballarat Landscape by Josh Muir of Ballarat. Very striking. The whole idea seems to have been driven by a single person, Julie Collins who is described as the artistic director in the catalogue. Like [...]
I’m often asked whether I walk out of films at MIFF. The answer is; not often. In part because I like to sit in the middle and it’s very distracting to others if I stumble out midway through. Though that’s not an impediment if something is truly terrible. I have a friend who sits on [...]
Six feature films and two documentaries got three stars from me. This includes my three biggest disappointments of the festival I had really been looking forward to the first three features in this list based on their reception at the Cannes Film Festival. There you go; responses to films, like all art, is such a [...]
