INNUENDO

Australians are inherently great story tellers. Over the past fifty years, many of our stories have been immortalised through cinema; the films that we produce are distinctly ours, owning a unique take on the world which surrounds us. Innuendo is the latest indie release from Melbourne’s Saara Lamberg. It is an impressive feat that really…

FILM

20/10/2017

IN EXODUS WE FIND THEM

In the dim lighting of the performance space, we can make out the silhouettes of bodies that dot the floor. The unmistakable voice of Leonard Cohen drifts across the audience, setting the tone for a work that is dark and foretelling. As all that is realist and the world that exists outside falls away…

PERFORMANCE

19/10/2017

JUST A JUMP TO THE LEFT

What is right? This is a loaded question in the age of political correctness, when for whatever reason, it feels as if our society is collectively walking upon egg shells, scared to hold opinions that may offend, however much they ring true and resonate with the individual. Part of Wheeler Centre’s Festival of Questions, What…

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19/10/2017

TREE OF CODES

Created by Wayne McGregor, this is a dance performance that is spectacular and all-consuming, transporting the audience to a time when dance was high octane and out of this world. Reminiscent of the New York dance scene in the eighties with work by choreographers such as Trisha Brown, the pace that this performance sets from…

PERFORMANCE

18/10/2017

A MODERN PHILOSOPHY

The Wheeler Centre’s Festival Of Questions’s Philosophical Fight Club could perhaps be better described as a session of philosophical mediation; this diverse line-up sought not to fight, but instead find common ground. The panel offered up many moments of illumination and insights. Hosted by the ever charismatic Geoffrey Robertson, a broadcaster, human rights barrister, academic and…

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16/10/2017

DRASKO BOLJEVIC

By 2050, the global community could see an added 2.5 billion people entering already densely-built environments. In this mess of concrete, steel and glass, it can sometimes be true that these environments could be seen as bereft of true life force and an imagination, becoming simply lonely wind tunnels with disconnected communities extended up into…

FILM

16/10/2017

TALE OF A HANDMAID

“Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.” Margaret Atwood’s famous words from The Handmaid’s Tale now ring truer than ever, In The Handmaid’s Tale’s dystopian America, women are enslaved by the patriarchy, repeatedly raped in what is poorly disguised as ceremony, and subjected to violent and bodily repercussions should they dare disobey. Now,…

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14/10/2017

BANGSOKOL A REQUIEM

In the four years between 1975 and 1979 immediately following the Cambodian Civil War, under the communist regime of Khmer Rouge, over one million Cambodians were wiped off the face of the earth in one of the biggest mass genocides in history. It is difficult for many Australians to comprehend such violence and atrocity. If such an event…

PERFORMANCE