[Published online at Right Now Inc and Human Rights Arts & Film Festival, May 3 2013] On January 25 2011, citizens from across Egypt united to change the course of history. Following on from neighbouring Tunisia, Egypt became the second country to revolt against their authoritarian government in what became known as the Arab Spring. […]
May 1, 2013
[Published in The Lifted Brow, Issue #17, Music Edition, May 2013] Dogs in Space (1986) is one of those bastard anomalies in the history of Australian film. In a decade when most directors were being funded to make jingoistic stories like Breaker Morant (1980), Gallipoli (1981), The Man From Snowy River (1982) and Crocodile Dundee (1986), […]
April 29, 2013
[Published in The Age, April 29 2013] Yugoslavia’s disintegration in the 1990s engendered Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War Two, the ethnic clashes between successor states resulting in genocides that killed well over 100,000 people. The international media soon moved on to newer battles, however, as the Yugoslav Wars stretched out across the decade. Danish […]
May 3, 2013
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