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Going Underground: Celluloid in the Digital Age

Going Underground: Celluloid in the Digital Age

August 12th 2017 | MIFF 2017ExperimentalCritics Campus66th MIFF
Through Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time and Niles Atallah’s Rey, MIFF2017 Critics Campus participant Keva York reflects on the materiality of cinema history.
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man - A Queer Marxist Reading

Tetsuo: The Iron Man - A Queer Marxist Reading

August 12th 2017 | Video EssaySci FiMIFF 2017Critics Campus66th MIFF
A video essay by 2017 Critics Campus participant Amanda Barbour explores the queer Marxist possibilities opened up by Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
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Pushing Boundaries: The Breakout Films from Pioneering Women

Pushing Boundaries: The Breakout Films from Pioneering Women

August 11th 2017 | Women FilmmakersMIFF 2017Critics CampusAustralian Films66th MIFF
The Pioneering Women filmmakers of Australian cinema look into aspects of women’s experiences often ignored by their male counterparts, argues MIFF 2017 Critics Campus participant Faith Everard.
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On Dries and Rethinking the Fashion Documentary

On Dries and Rethinking the Fashion Documentary

August 11th 2017 | MIFF 2017DocumentaryCritics Campus66th MIFF
2017 Critics Campus participant Phoebe Chen strips back the glamour in her look at Reiner Holzemer’s Dries and the fashion documentary.
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Fitting In is Tough: The Trials of a Teenage Dahmer

Fitting In is Tough: The Trials of a Teenage Dahmer

August 10th 2017 | 66th MIFFCritics CampusMIFF 2017
The ethics of movies about real life serial killers like Marc Meyers' My Friend Dahmer is placed under the microscope by 2017 Critics Campus participant Kai Perrignon.
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Nothings Lasts Forever and Oddball Dystopias of the 70s and 80s

Nothings Lasts Forever and Oddball Dystopias of the 70s and 80s

August 10th 2017 | Sci FiMIFF 2017Critics Campus66th MIFF
Nothing Lasts Forever is one of a number of subversive sci-fi satires worthy of your attention, says 2017 Critics Campus participant Dominic Ellis.
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Alive and Radical: The Grey-Haired Girls of Top of the Lake: China Girl

Alive and Radical: The Grey-Haired Girls of Top of the Lake: China Girl

August 9th 2017 | Women FilmmakersMIFF TalksMIFF 2017Critics Campus66th MIFF
Jane Campion celebrates the spirit of women in their prime both on screen and in person with Top of the Lake: China Girl, writes 2017 Critics Campus participant Blythe Worthy.
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Beyond Ambition: Nicole Kidman and Jane Campion’s journey toward Top of the Lake: China Girl

Beyond Ambition: Nicole Kidman and Jane Campion’s journey toward Top of the Lake: China Girl

July 18th 2017 | MIFF 2017Festival GuestsCritics CampusAustralian Films66th MIFFWomen Filmmakers
MIFF 2017 Critics Campus participant Blythe Worthy traces the journey made by Nicole Kidman and Jane Campion to bring them both to Top of the Lake: China Girl
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Yorgos Lanthimos, Nikos Nikolaidis and the tradition of Greek shock cinema

Yorgos Lanthimos, Nikos Nikolaidis and the tradition of Greek shock cinema

July 18th 2017 | MIFF 2017HeadlinersCritics Campus66th MIFF
MIFF Critics Campus participant Kai Perrignon takes a look at the beginnings of the Greek "weird wave" that paved the way for Yorgos Lanthimos
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A Life Unsaved: an Interview with Sotiris Dounoukos

A Life Unsaved: an Interview with Sotiris Dounoukos

August 13th 2016 | MIFF 2016Critics CampusAustralian Films
In the final Critics Campus 2016 article, participant Doosie Morris talks true crime, vulnerability, and community with Joe Cinque’s Consolation director Sotiris Dounoukos.
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