Making Art Accessible
MCA’s Liz Ann Macgregor
The director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Liz Ann Macgregor talks to us about the state of contemporary installation and the importance of integrating art within the public, urban experience.
Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, July 31
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter
Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.
Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.
Novel Ideas
Chip Rolley
What is the relationship between books and films? What makes manga and the graphic novel so ripe for adapting and what genres will be next? How is technology changing the way we read forever, as publishing has its “iPod moment”?
All this and more when we speak to the Sydney Writers’ Festival’s incoming Artistic Director Chip Rolley this week at Friday On My Mind.
Time: 5-6pm
Date: Friday, July 17
Venue: AFTRS Theatre, Fox Entertainment Quarter
Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.
Free entry. Free 2-hr parking. All welcome.
Creature Features
Rowan Woods
From The Boys to the fantstical Farscape to Little Fish, we look at the essence of Rowan Woods’ dramatic style and take a sneak peek at clips from his upcoming Hollywood feature, Winged Creatures.
Date: Friday, July 3
Time: 5-6pm
Entry: Free (2-hr free parking)
* includes a clip from the upcoming Winged Creatures
Friday On My Mind is AFTRS‘ weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry’s brightest thinkers.
The Australian Film Television and Radio School has continued its “rethink” of the screen sector with the launch of its new film journal Lumina.
David Stratton cut the tape on what is a dedicated space for examination and rumination on the current state of the Australian screen sector – in particular, as the cover implies, the nexis between art and industry.
Lumina‘s editorial team comprises AFTRS CEO Sandra Levy, Head of Business Studies David Court, Head of Screen Studies Karen Pearlman and yours truly. The leading essay is by Baz Luhrmann.
Other contributions to the 180-page publication include select transcripts from Friday on My Mind, as well as from Andrew Urban’s The Knowledge, genre essays including David Stratton’s ‘Origins of Horror’, and Vincent Sheehan’s argument for ‘Why Australian Producers Should Think More Like Distributors’.
Stratton welcomed Lumina as a “journal that is provocative, insightful and entertaining.”
Lumina will be sold at selected bookshops. Issue 2 is already underway – may there be many more.