Art mirroring reality or reality aping art?
Where does one begin and the other end?
Should art lead or follow?
Without reality there is no art, but art is not merely the factotum of reality.
What elevates art is imagination
The head of this 12 inch LCD screen puppet, COMPUTER BOY, is life size, reminding us of the games addicted generation of 13 to 19 years olds, straddling the real and virtual worlds. This provocative piece was inspired by a
Saturday night’s concert, MET SERIES 3, opened with a performance of Sibelius’ Valse Triste. The soft & delicate opening made one realise that the The Independent Theatre at North Sydney is an ideal venue for The Metropolitan Orchestra and its
Written and directed by Paul Gilchrist, this new play, LUCY BLACK, is an interesting and entertaining study of various dualities and inherent tensions, the intuitive and the logical, the new and the old, the privileged and proletariat and male and
Nazis! On the Moon! In a swastika-shaped fortress! Building a monstrous super-weapon! Plotting to take over the world!
There’s an ageing Fuhrer (not that one), a ruthless Military Commander, an evil scientist, and his beautiful daughter, who thinks Nazism is
One of the great mysteries of this year’s Academy Award nominations was the omission of Pedro Almodovar’s scintillating THE SKIN I LIVE IN, from the Best Foreign Language Film category. THE SKIN I LIVE IN (R) the spooky, kooky Almodovar
With Simon Stone’s STRANGE INTERLUDE, after Eugene O’Neill’s 1928 play, we are in similar territory to German playwright Botho Strauss’s play GROSS UND KLEIN, recently produced by the Sydney Theatre Company, and starring, in the leading role, Cate Blanchett as
With TRUCK STOP, Lachlan Philpott has written a funny, complex and confrontational play. It is skilfully directed by Katrina Douglas, bringing Sean Bacon’s video and the actors’ performances together to draw the audience in.
The story is centred around three
I remember the original MEN IN BLACK, back in 1997, well and fondly, but I think I have been neutralised about the second instalment, a decade ago. Totally forgettable as I remember. A sequel not the equal.
Thankfully, MEN IN
Subtle, sensuous, and utterly fascinating, SILENT SOULS (M) is a 75 minute road movie of great distinction by Aleksei Fedorchenko.
When manager of a provincial paper mill Miron’s beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend and colleague