How To Run An International Film Festival: SURVIVAL GUIDE

Neil Boyack

Community Engagement Coordinator & Director, CAFS Survival International Film Festival  

You might think that social welfare organisations and film festivals have little in common, but it has become apparent to me, as both a writer and organiser … Read More

The Nice House: Louise Turley

SOCIAL WORK with Neil Boyack  

The Nice House, directed by Louise Turley is a touching insight and tribute to Luke Batty and his mother Rosie. Australia was shocked to the core when Luke was murdered at the hand of … Read More

Social Work: Ken McGregor

Philanthropist, consultant, manager, curator and collector of contemporary world art, Ken McGregor, has made an extraordinary impression on the Australian art world over the years. He is the author and producer of more than thirty art related publications, including John … Read More

Greg Creek: The Desktop Drawings

SOCIAL WORK

Created on modest scaled desks and yet sometimes beguiling by their incredible length, Greg Creek’s drawings focus upon the richness of a studio process that captures the interaction between the incidentals of everyday events and universal contexts.

Shepparton … Read More

David Rosetzky’s True Self

SOCIAL WORK

One of Australia’s finest artists, David Rosetzky creates intensely beautiful lens-based works exploring identity, subjectivity and relationships. Increasingly, he collaborates with professionals from the fields of theatre, dance, film and sound. Drawing on fifteen years of … Read More

Wade Clarke / Aeriae

SOCIAL WORK

Mad keyboard licks kick off Sydney-based producer Aeriae’s second album, Victris. Somehow fittingly described as “hypersequenced excitation” in the Clan Analogue PR, opener ‘Revered Daughter’ is a gateway to ten tracks that explore musical possibilities from … Read More

All Day Adalita

A Social Work interview

Adalita’s All Day Venus proclaims the triumphant return of rock chic from a rock chick. The first official single from the album, ‘Warm Like You’, is detuned guitar nirvana (see what I did there). … Read More

Social Work: Nick Brokaw

Nick Brokaw is the Director / Writer / Producer of Four Winds (Napesni Motion Pictures), showing at the inaugural Survival International Film Festival (SIFF, 21 – 23 May) at Ballarat Mechanics Institute this Friday (6.45pm).

Four Winds is a deep … Read More

Social Work : Roger Ballen

The Asylum of the Birds

Working with black and white film, Roger Ballen is what you might call ‘a wound opener, shedding light on the darker side of the human self – a place that most of us … Read More

Social Work: Emma Hack

Prior to her iconic collaboration with Grammy award winning musician Gotye on his film clip for Somebody That I Used to Know (2011), Adelaide-based artist Emma Hack was known best for her Wallpaper series (2005 – 2010), in which she … Read More