Essays/articles/talks
Reverse chronological order. Does not include books, book chapters, or article series-
The Many Delphine Seyrigs in the Room of Chantal Akerman
Woman Sitting After Killing
2025
exhibition review
Senses of Cinema No.114, Melbourne -
Tobe Hooper & Wayne Bell
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2025
record review
The Wire No.494, LondonExcerpt
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Tainted Silver & Digital Strings
The Sound of Music in Bill Mousoulis' My Darling in Stirling
2024
essay
Rough Cut, Melbourne -
Soda_Jerk
2024
introduction and Q+A sessions
for the screenings of Hello Dankness
ACMI, Melbourne -
I Am A Serious Artist
Contemporary Artists in Contemporary Hollywood
2023
essay
Memo Magazine No.1, Melbourne -
Greatest Films Of All Time
2023
Poll invitation
Sight & Sound, Vol.33 issue 1, London -
Vale Vince Gil
2022
obituary
unpublished, Melbourne -
Ethical Media Studies 101
2020
list
Covid-19 lock-down film recommendations
Efficient Space blog, Melbourne -
Post-Human Post-Cinema
Part 2 - Westworld's First Episode
2019
essay
(unpublished) -
Post-Human Post-Cinema
Part 1 - Westworld's Opening Title Sequence
2018
essay
Senses Of Cinema No.89, Melbourne -
Glimpses Of The Present
2018
essay
reprinted in Australian Film Theory and Criticism - Volume 3: Documents, Intellect, London -
Particulate Cinema
Visualising Data & Posthuman Physics
2017
essay
Artlink, Vol.37 No.1, AdelaideExcerpt
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Blank Generations
2017
unpublished slide presentation
in conjunction with the film series Lost New York
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney -
Hyper-Feminization
2017
panel presentation
for the panel Anime & Feminism
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne -
Disaster, Trauma & Reconstruction in Miyazaki’s Anime
2017
unpublished talk
in conjunction with the Madman Anime Festival
Yarra Libraries, Melbourne -
De-touchable Technologies
Between Dreams & Nightmares
2017
essay
Oberon, No.3, CopenhagenExcerpt
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Art + Film
2017
live conversation
with Emile Zile for Art+Film series
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne -
Shin Godzilla
2016
film review
Radio National's The Final Cut, October 2016 -
Meta-Cinema & Japanese Comedy
2016
unpublished slide lecture
for the Urbanism lecture series
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney2015
unpublished slide lecture
for the Cult Japan screening programme
Australian Cinematheque, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane -
Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises
Politics, Engineering & Image-Making
2014
film review
Frieze online, London -
Frederick Wiseman's National Gallery
2014
film review
Artforum online, New York -
A Sonic Reading of Visualised Space
A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness
2014
film review
The Wire, London, 2014 -
Tokusatsu: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2013
exhibition review
Frieze No.152, London -
The Way Wakamatsu Chose His Own Fate
Political Mortality & Radical Dramaturgy
2012
essay
Senses Of Cinema No.65, Melbourne -
Hypnagogic Horror - Hauntological Cinema
Berberian Sound Studio
2014
film review
RealTime No.113, Sydney -
Is It Weird?
Or, Actualising Disallowed Cinema
2013
essay
Lola No.3, Buffalo/Melbourne -
Copying Doctors - Consuming Cinema
Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
2012
film review
Realtime No.107, Sydney -
The Myth Of Collage In Cinema
2010
unpublished talk
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne -
Enlarge Your Penis Now
Script-writing as self-help for a sick industry
2009
catalogue essay
for Emile Zile
Unheard Cinema Festival, Netherlands -
Pink Cinema
2011
panel contribution
for 1st Fantastic Asia Film Festival
Nova Cinema, Melbourne -
Graphic Cinema
2011
essay
Artlines, 2011 issue 4, Brisbane -
Anime At The Speed Of Thought
Welcome To Irabu's Office + The Tatami Galaxy
2011
catalogue essay
for the DVD release
Siren Visual, Melbourne -
Delusional Praxis & Cinematic Immolation
Ecstasy of Angels
2009
essay
Un, Volume 3 No.2, Melbourne -
Targeting Australia
2009
film review
Real Time No.89, Sydney -
Citizen Kane
The sound of the look of a 'visual masterpiece'
2008
essay
Music & The Moving Image, Vol.1 No.3, University of Illinois Press, Champaign -
The 50 Best Things About Anime
2007
overview
Empire, Sydney, January 2007 -
Critics' Top Ten 2006
Film Comment
2007
list
Film Comment Vol.43 No.1, January-February, New York -
Manga & Anime in Australia
2006
report
Wochi Kochi (Japan Foundation Quarterly Newsletter), Tokyo -
L'Amour Japan
Recent Frissons in Japanese Cinema
2006
essay
Metro Magazine No.149, Melbourne -
Showgirls
2006
film review
for the Trash & Treasure segment of IN The Cut
ABC Radio National -
Toshio Suzuki
Producer, Studio Ghibli
2005
introduction and Q+A session
for the screening of Howl's Moving Castle
Sydney International Film Festival, Sydney -
My Dreadful Failure As An Australian Filmmaker
2004
heartfelt confession
Spinach7, No.3, Melbourne -
Sounds of Sex & Violence
2003
unpublished talk
Adelaide International Film Festival, Adelaide -
Spirited Away
2003
screening introduction
for the season Asia In Focus
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne -
I Am Robot And Proud
Robots, Cyborgs & Androids in the Manga of Osamu Tezuka
2003
unpublished slide presentation
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne -
Takuji Endo
Patlabor: Wasted XIII
2002
introduction and Q+A session
for the season Japanime 02
Dendy Quay Cinemas, Sydney -
Noise & Conduction
(With Passing Reference to the Absence of Ideas in Australian Cinema)
2002
notes from unpublished talk
Australian Screen Directors Association conference, Sydney -
Baby, You're The Right Kind Of Wrong
Pop Music, Cinema & Other Holes
2002
essay
Photofile No.66, Sydney -
Vinyl Fantasy
2002
essay
Gloss No.4, Melbourne -
What do I think of the ABC?
2002
private email response
ABC Radio National -
The Scent Of Pacino
2000
essay
Senses of Cinema issue 6, Melbourne -
The Birds
The Triumph of Noise Over Music
1999
essay
Essays In Sound No.4, Sydney -
Music, Heat & the soundtracks of Michael Mann
1998
unpublished talk
John Manogios Lecture Series, Kaleide Cinema, Melbourne -
J'Taime Ginga Tetsudo 999
1997
programme notes
for stage musical version of Reiji Matsumoto's Galaxy Express 999
Art Sphere Galaxy Theatre, Tokyo -
Jane Fucking Campion
A particular feminine sensibility
1996
faxed rejection of invitation
The Independent, Sydney -
The Body Internal
1996
unpublished slide talk
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne -
Japanese Animation in the West
1995
essay
Filmnews No.117, Sydney -
Labyrinth of Dreams
1995
catalogue entry
45th Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne -
Aspects of Sound & Music in Indigenous Cinema
1995
unpublished talk
The Indigenous Narrative Drama Initiative workshops
Australian Film Commission, Sydney -
Spatial Logic & Dimensionality in Film
1995
unpublished talk
Sound In Space talk series
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney -
Illiterature
1991
unpublished talk
National Screenwriters' Conference, Melbourne -
The Body Horrible
Some notions. Some points. Some examples.
1990
expanded slide lecture
George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada1988
initial publication of article
Interventions Nos. 21/22, Sydney -
Death Videos
1988
overview
People Magazine, Sydney, May 1988 -
Romantic Agony
Shifting the frame of reference ...
1988
panel contribution - unpublished notes
State Film Theatre, Melbourne -
All Horror Films Are Sick
True or False?
1987
essay
Cinema Papers, No.62, Melbourne -
Cinema's Flickering Future
International Videos in the 1987 Melbourne International Film Festival
1987
overview
Filmnews Vol.17 No.7, Sydney -
Creative Development
The Poetics of Politics in Australian (Film) Culture
1987
polemic
Arena No.80, Melbourne -
Rewritten Westerns - Rewired Westerns
Lawyers in Cars & Monsters with guitars
1987
essay
Stuffing No.1, Melbourne -
Western Spaghetti & Spaghetti Westerns
Maria Kozic
1986
catalogue essay
Maria Kozic - Aperto section, Venice Biennale -
Artificialism
Anything but Realism
1986
unpublished essay -
From The Horrific To The Terrific
An Index of the Best/Worst in Video Horror
1985
viewing guide
Special Horror Feature
The Video Age, Vol.4 No.3, Melbourne -
Terror Technologis
Emergent/Resurgent Themes in Contemporary Science Fiction
1985
essay
Third Degree, No.3, Sydney -
Glimpses Of The Present
1985
essay
Tension No.8, Melbourne -
Sanscript
1985
unpublished talk
1st National Script Writers' Conference, Melbourne -
Say Goodbye To Hollywood
1984
essay
Third Degree No.1, Sydney -
Tales Of Terror
The Horror Films You Think You Know
1984
essay
Cinema Papers, No.49, Melbourne -
Ending
1983
essay
Stuff No.4, Melbourne
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