UNSW postgraduate Charu Maithani explores the new kinds of interactions enabled between viewer/spectator and screen in the postmedia age. She examines changing aspect ratios, interactivity, and film production technology through the past 50 ye

Gendered Vulnerability in Transnational Action Cinema: xXx, The Great Wall, and Kung Fu Yoga

Aug 18th, 2017 1h 35m

Dr Timothy Laurie discusses masculinity in transnational action cinema. He looks at the numerous high budget action films emerging in the US, China, and India in the past decade that employ both international casting and transnational narrative

Vellaikkaariya? – Constructing Amy Jackson, Nativity and Whiteness in Tamil Cinema

Aug 3rd, 2017 1h 6m

Meena Saverimuttu, a postgraduate at Macquarie University, examines whiteness in Tamil cinema by taking as her case study British actress Amy Jackson's roles in two recent Tamil films. She explores the positioning of two different Amy Jacksons:

A crysis of perspective: (S)pawning subjectivity in interactive media

May 24th, 2017 1h 13m

Presented by **Ben Eldridge, a postgraduate at The University of Sydney. Ben provides a rumination on mainstream interactive media, grounded in a brief case study of two texts spattered with violence and security content – Crytek’s first-person

Inside the ‘open-image’: Virtual reality cinema as a medium of ethical experience

May 10th, 2017 1h 14m

Postgraduate Adam Daniel explores the potential of virtual reality as a medium of ethical experience. He questions how images can affect us in a multimodal sense: cognitively, but also emotionally, corporeally, and sensorially. Adam's paper is

Bedevil in the details: Australian experimental film in the era of new media

May 3rd, 2017 1h 22m

Melbourne-based academic Dr Maura Edmond presents her research on Australian experimental film culture in the 1990s. She looks at the legacy of the Keating government's 1994 "Creative Nation" policy and considers whether, two decades on, it has

The social life of films: An alternative perspective on informal film circulation

Apr 26th, 2017 59m 4s

PhD candidate Mahsa Salamati discusses informal film circulation in contemporary Iranian cinema. She uses a case study of Jafar Panahi’s This is not a Film (2011) and his other works since he was banned from filmmaking in 2008. She explores how

Nostalgia, representation and transgression in Disney Princess culture

Apr 5th, 2017 1h 26m

Postgraduate researcher Emily Chandler explores the current trend in adults' participation in fandom for films aimed at children. She focusses on the Disney princess franchise, and attributes adults' ongoing engagement with it to a combination

Phenomenology and contemporary film consumption

Mar 22nd, 2017 1h 4m

Sydney University researcher Dr Karina Aveyard discusses the embodied elements of the film viewing experience across a range of public and private environments. She challenges the assumption that the theatrical cinema is a superior film-viewing

When file-sharing isn’t piracy: Formalising peer-to-peer distribution

Mar 8th, 2017 51m 36s

Postgraduate and film critic Lauren Carroll Harris argues for the legitimacy of peer-to-peer file-sharing as a legal method of film distribution. She draws on numerous examples of this distribution model playing out, including David Cross's 201

Zhang Yimou's Coming Home (2014)

Sep 20th, 2016 27m 1s

Associate Professor Xiaoying Yue leads a discussion about Zhang Yimou's Coming Home (2014) with an audience who have just watched it for the first time. The group debates the film's meaning in terms of cultural identity and Zhang's visual style

Vampire pastimes to immortality: Boredom vs. playfulness in Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Aug 23rd, 2016 9m 30s

Elena Sarno, a PhD candidate at The University of Sydney, presents an introduction to a screening of Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). Elena explores the film through the lens of 'Playful Cinema.' She examines the film's vampires as creatures tha

The war veteran as conduit into the 1920s: Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014) and Peaky Blinders (2013-present)

May 17th, 2016 30m 57s

Postgraduate Dirk Gibb, from the University of Newcastle, discusses the figure of the WWI veteran that frequently appears in the 21st century popular culture revival of the 1920s. Dirk’s paper is followed by a question and answer section with t

Queer identities in Empire (2015-pres.)

Apr 19th, 2016 39m 48s

Dr Ava Parsemain introduces an episode of Empire (2015-pres.), framing it in terms of the visibility of and its engagement with non-heterosexual identities. She contends that Empire explores notions of identity and fluidity in a way that chall

The emerging gap: From student to filmmaker

Apr 5th, 2016 1h 34m

Dr Klara Bruveris chairs a roundtable panel that debates issues raised in the Metro Screen research paper, "Emerging Visions: Career Pathways in the Australian Screen Production Industry." Five UNSW graduates and emerging industry practitioners

Mining mythology in 21st century Australian film: Red Dog (2011) and Japanese Story (2003)

Mar 22nd, 2016 47m 36s

Ben Chapman, a WSU postgraduate student, discusses the representations of the landscape in Australian cinema, using two films, Japanese Story (2003) and Red Dog (2011). He engages in a discussion of the development of monolithic ideas of Austr

Conversation with the filmmaker: Being Venice (2012)

Sep 1st, 2015 40m 8s

Filmmaker Miro Bilbrough is interviewed by Lauren Carroll Harris after a screening of her film Being Venice (2012) at UNSW Australia. Lauren asked Miro about the writing, production and inspiration for the film, and the role of Sydney as a ce

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