Work Tagged ‘Arts’

Brian Eno – LUX

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Spectrum (Sydney Morning Herald - weekend),

Dec 1-2, 2012

Rating: ★★★½☆

Brian Eno built his career by being patient with music and impatient with its confines. The former saw him pioneer ambient music in the 70s while the latter freed him to explore production, visual art, festival curation, writing and other oddball projects.

Enjoying a high strike rate of acclaim, Eno came to occupy an enviable realm where he’s recognised by most, accessible to many, yet answerable to no-one. So when he casually resumes a series 37 years after starting it, barely anyone blinks.

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Bondi Short Film Festival

The Brag,

November, 2010

Unlike most festival directors, clamouring to be the biggest or best or most niche or most independent, Bondi Short Film Festival (BSFF) director Francis Coady doesn’t particularly want to discuss what sets his festival apart. He knows journalists ask, however, so he’s got the answer ready.

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Electrofringe

First published in The Brag.

Electrofringe Festival co-director Daniel Green has had a “big, goal-kicking day” when I call him. “I’d like to think the festival is as under control as possible at this stage,” he says cautiously. “Although there’s always another curve ball thrown at you. That’s the nature of the beast!”

“The beast” is Electrofringe, TINA’s experimental electronic arts festival. This year, Electrofringe presents around 60 events – from performances, artist presentations, exhibitions, workshops, panel discussions, exhibitions, screenings and public interventions. Due to the sheer exuberance of those involved, it’s a festival that often seems to bite off more than it can chew; yet always seems to pull it off too.

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‘I am love’ – review

First published on pagesdigital, here.

I emerged from Italian melodrama I Am Love with my head and heart spinning. Director Luca Guadagnino has made a rich and hypnotic film of grand scale about love, tradition and entrapment. Starring the inimitable Tilda Swinton I Am Love tells the tale of the Recchis, a high-society Milanese family, whose traditions are dissolving around them, creating first a ripple, then a tidal wave of change.

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Way to Heaven – review (Stables Theatre)

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The Brag,

May, 2010

It’s 1942, and a Red Cross inspector is invited by the Nazis to visit a Jewish ghetto near Berlin. He tours the town and sees normality: couples court, children play, vendors sell their wares. Conditions are tough but acceptable, the inspector reports. The inspector is wrong.

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