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[LOCKDOWN]
ESSAYS№ 01
The year ended and I still had not gone back to the cinema
Cinemas reopened in November and I watched three films on my laptop in December and I am not sure what that says about me.
MARA DENG28.12.2020
ESSAYS№ 02
Watching Picnic at Hanging Rock in a room I could not leave
Three women vanish into a landscape that does not want them, and I watched it from a flat with no balcony in Fitzroy.
MARA DENG12.11.2020
ESSAYS№ 03
How do you write about cinema when you cannot go to the cinema
The job is to write about what films do in a room full of strangers, and the room has been empty since March.
MARA DENG14.07.2020
MUSIC№ 04
Australian musicians played to laptop cameras and the sound changed
The venue closed, the laptop opened, and the room the mic was in became a bedroom.
KIERAN BOUSTANY26.06.2020
MUSIC№ 05
Australian composers spent lockdown scoring podcasts and games and it changed how they work
When the films stopped, the composers did not; they just scored different things, and the habits they built in lockdown stayed.
KIERAN BOUSTANY28.04.2020
TV№ 06
Six Australian shows worth finding while the cinemas are closed
The cinemas shut, the couch stayed, and the back catalogues on iview and Stan are deeper than you think.
RHYS TAVITA16.04.2020