Film & TV
Beyond the red carpets and glittering stars, South Australia’s film industry is doing something equally magical for local storytelling. Ali Clarke explains.
Film & TV
A debut South Australian filmmaking team has spun gold from straw, using one actor, one location and a shoestring budget to create a world-class sci-fi thriller.
SA arts and culture news in brief: New fairytale thriller to headline Windmill’s 2023 season, encore screenings added to Adelaide Film Festival line-up, curator’s picks for OzAsia’s writing and ideas program, and Carclew’s throwing a free 50th birthday party.
A Danish documentary filmmaker follows three glaciologists into one of the most extreme environments on Earth, seeking to discover how fast the Greenland icesheet is melting. The resulting film is as sobering as it is exquisite.
Things not to do when being stalked by a carnivore in the bush: tell a friend to wait here because you’ll be back; joke about extinct meat-eaters that drop from the trees and go for the jugular; hope to find something no one has seen before.
Australian writer and director Jonathan Ogilvie’s dark political thriller makes ingenious use of society’s growing nonchalance about surveillance culture to create an unnerving new film aesthetic.
Harry Styles’ performance was a lure for many audience members at the Australian premiere of queer period drama My Policeman, which sees the actor-singer play a constable at the centre of an unravelled love triangle.
