Review

Big Screen: Mary & The Witch’s Flower

There was a hole left in the film industry after Miyazaki quit as Studio Ghibli’s director. Who will step up to fill the void? James Ross reviews the latest offering from the legendary creator’s protégé, Hiromasa Yonebayashi.

Playmate: On The Border of Things

A talk, a bilingual performance piece, a video and an immersion into farm life – all in a small garage in Erskineville.

The Hanging: Moving Histories // Future Projections

One screen, ten of Australia’s leading female artists. Moving Histories // Future Projections brings together a series of video-based artworks to critique the impact of film throughout time.

Big Screen: The Killing Of A Sacred Deer

Part modern myth, part horror story and part absurdist comedy, ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ is like a car crash in slow motion, unsettling to watch but bizarrely fascinating.

Big Screen: Detroit

It starts like a fever dream, then narrows in on a single motel during the city’s 1976 race riots. Challenging, and at times confusing, ‘Detroit’ places you right in the thick of it.

The Hanging: Not Niwe, Not Nieuw, Not Neu

It almost feels like a visit to a small scale museum of natural history, that’s if the museum was also staging gut-wrenching irony… Now showing at 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

The Hanging: The Last Resort, Kaldor Public Art Projects

A site of early contact between colonists and Indigenous Australians, Observatory Hill reverberates with ideas of history, land and culture for Anri Sala’s ‘The Last Resort’.

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The Hanging: Balik Bayan at Blacktown Arts Centre

Balik Bayan is a group exhibition at Blacktown Arts Centre celebrating contemporary Filipino arts and culture. Each artist draws on their personal history and culture to create works that straddle Filipino ethnicity and their Australian nationality.

The Hanging: Looking at Me Through You

Don’t miss Campbelltown Arts Centre’s complex, compelling new exhibition; a letter to Campbelltown from some of Sydney’s most interesting young artists.

The Hanging: Shadows are cast by things and people

Putting together the pieces at the Australian Centre for Photography’s latest exhibition.