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ESSAYS№ 01
ACMI holds the memory that Australian cinema keeps forgetting to save
The museum on Fed Square is the only place in this country that treats Australian screen culture as something worth keeping, and the fact that it is the only one says everything.
MARA DENG14.01.2026
FILM№ 02
The Plains watches a man drive home from work for three hours and earns every minute
David Easteal bolted a camera to a dashboard and recorded six months of a suburban commute, and the result is the most radical Australian film of the decade.
BRONTE HAUGHEY04.12.2025
FILM№ 03
MIFF 2024 programmed for argument and the audience showed up ready
The 2024 programme leaned harder into difficulty than any MIFF in recent memory, and the sessions were fuller for it.
BRONTE HAUGHEY14.08.2024
INDUSTRY№ 04
MIFF sold 148,000 tickets in 2023 and the margin was thinner than ever
The audience came back, the sponsorship did not, and the festival is running on volunteer labour and Creative Victoria grants.
ODETTE MALOUF28.07.2023
TV№ 05
Clickbait was made in Melbourne for a global audience and it shows
Netflix set a thriller in Oakland, filmed it in Melbourne, cast Adrian Grenier, and hoped nobody would notice the gum trees.
RHYS TAVITA14.09.2021
FILM№ 06
MIFF went hybrid in 2021 and discovered what a festival cannot stream
The 2021 festival split itself between cinemas and living rooms, and the living rooms lost.
BRONTE HAUGHEY20.07.2021
FILM№ 07
ACMI reopened and the new exhibition treats the screen as a surface worth touching
The renovation turned a film museum into a museum about looking, and the difference is worth noticing.
BRONTE HAUGHEY14.04.2021
ESSAYS№ 08
The empty cinema down the road
The Palace on Norton Street has its lights off, and I keep walking past it like it might change its mind.
MARA DENG22.04.2020