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...

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...

Because of Covid-19, we have relocated this conference online to Zoom. So now we will meet on November 18 & 19, with accessible online videos available on our conference site from November 4 onwards. Join us for roundtable discussion and debate about Giannini and populism, theatre, cinema, and journalism.

I love the Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre poster I appropriated...See link below for recorded talk...

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...

In 2019 I attended and ran Master Classes on "Micro Budget Filmmaking" at Hasanuddin University, Makassar. I also ran these classes at the Festival Sinema Australia, hosted by Ruang Film Bandung. I did this in the executive role I was appointed to as Deakin University's Associate Head of School, Partnerships international (SCCA).

Here I am (L-R) with Carolyn Williams, Sharon Weltman, David Mayer, Elisa Uffreduzzzi, Vito Adriaensens at the Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava, Venice, was a great setting for the

As a graduate student at UCLA in the 1990s, I won 2 years of PhD research in the BnF to undertake research on Sarah Bernhardt and early film. At that time (1997-1999), there were few people (well, no one) researching silent film in the libraries of Paris. I recall being allowed to photocopy just 10 pages a day at the...

Screening the stage: Actresses and acting in France from Theatre to Silent Cinema