Events
 


Well, this was a both an pleasure and an honour: to be invited into a doco film class in Venice and to teach a class of students about Australian doco today! The class I presented was called: "Under the same sky: Documentary and identities in Australia." I began with exploring a couple of short recent works by Liz Baulch,...

Thank you Annick Lemoine, the Director of the Petit Palais, Stéphanie Cantarutti, chief curator of nineteenth century Painting at the Petit Palais, and Cécilie Champy-Vinas, chief curator of the Zadkine museum for inviting me to speak about Sarah Bernhardt and American cinema. in this centenary year! I was so am honoured to be part of this event...

With colleague Elena Mosconi (Uni Pavia) I am organizing the Ugo Tognazzi: Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man initiative. This is a film retrospective and exhibition celebrating the 100th (and one) birthday of Ugo Tognazzi, the famous protagonist of Italian cinema. It includes the screening of three films that have been recently restored by the...

#AIDC2023

02/28/2023

This is the Deakin Motion Lab's first year of partnering with the Australian International Documentary Conference. The winner of the $3000 prize we supported was NIGHT CREATURES | 2022 by Isobel Knowles Van Sowerwine, Philippa Campey. What are my take-aways from the event?

For my first trip outside Australia, post-Covid, I was able to participate in the AIRSC (basically, the Italian Cinema Scholars) day of study at the Cineteca di Bologna. This is a Cineteca I first visited in 1992, when I attended my first Cinema Ritrovato festival. So it is a place and city I know extremely well: the streets and...

In this talk, I argue that the French stage actress in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was a global celebrity who pioneered a reciprocal, visible and above all productive relationship between the Arts and technological development. She did this in Paris, in one of the leading centers of cultural production and technological...

In my role as Associate Head of School, Partnership and International, I was part of the team that built and developed this inaugural collaboration between Deakin University and the newly re-built Geelong Arts Centre. Profiling the creative work led by Deakin staff and students and demonstrating the strength of Deakin's engagement in the community,...

This paper was part of a panel that explores the 'les deux orphelines', the two orphan sisters who were first featured in the melodrama, Les Deux Orphelines, at the Théâtre Porte St. Martin, Paris, in January 1874. Written by Eugène Cormon and Adolphe D'Ennery, the play became one of the most famous and enduring melodramatic vehicles in the late...