Arts Original Creative Works

Roads

Melissa Milton-Smith — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:01:21 PDT

Roads is a 15 minute moving image production that explores convergences between mind space and city space. As the female protagonist traverses the city, she becomes increasingly aware of its abstract movements and dynamic flows, which connect to her own psychological state. The production creates links between urban flux and the iterations of mind-space, memory and reverie.

City's I

Melissa Milton-Smith — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:19:21 PDT

City’s I is a 15 minute moving image production that explores the 20th century idea of the flâneur. The film traces the journey of a female protagonist through a city’s space, and explores the idea of the city ‘looking back’ at its inhabitants. City’s I raises questions about spectatorship, surveillance and the corporeality of the city.

Crooked

Camilla Nelson — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:29:52 PDT

Corruption, prostitution, gambling, bent coppers, crooked politicians, honest crims. It's all in a day's work.

Set against the back drop of the Askin government with events revolving around notorious crime identities Dick Reilly, Lennie McPherson and Johnny Warren, CROOKED reveals the dark underbelly of Sydney during the late 1960s.

Gus Finlay is a fresh-faced young detective who is transferred to the Criminal Investigation Branch after his partner has been exposed as running crooked.

Sydney is a savage place. A series of violent killings escalate with a spectacular execution-style murder. When a black book with names of prominent politicians and members of the police force is discovered among the dead man's things, the case is blown wide open, and someone will have to pay . . .

Mise en Seine

Deborah J. Pike — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:28:00 PDT

In Paris there is no experience more enchanting than wandering along the Seine on an Autumn afternoon, stopping every now and then to rifle through the stands of a bookiniste, only to discover a treasure: a 17th century map, a book of poems by Jacques Prévert, France’s most pleasing poet of the mid-20th century.

While travellers might be intoxicated with the music of Parisian streets or awed by the ornate architecture, the city can appear cold and frustrate with its inaccessible beauty and the seeming remoteness of its people.

The best way into French culture is through its literature. Enjoy a potent moment alone in a crammed café sipping a chocolat and dip into one of the delights of French literary history.

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