On a whim in May, because it landed in my maiming lists inbox, I decided to send temperance to Cinedans, promptly …
March 19, 2011 – 10:25 pm
die singende stadt — parsifal and calixto bieito
The last day screening, Dasniya and I climbed the stairs of Hackesche Höfe Kino for 90 more minutes of the …
August 12, 2010 – 9:39 am
Werner Bab
One of the first sites I did as a freelancer was porting imdialog-ev.org from a dead cms into WordPress for …
July 28, 2010 – 11:24 am
rehearsing in café prückel
Today in Café Prückel, in the cellar, in the theatre. Filming some of the performance and performing some of it …
August 17, 2009 – 10:27 am
save the vca
It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …
July 19, 2009 – 4:18 am
Gunter Kroemer
Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …
June 16, 2009 – 3:39 am
bötzow brauerei beleuchtet bei nacht
An undertaking by night in the Brauerei. An unlikely moment where my poor camera has enough light to capture the …
January 4, 2009 – 10:43 pm
re.act.feminism – performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute
Still dark, before 6am, lying in bed, the clouded sky lighting the city and me already with coffee and reading, …
August 1, 2007 – 2:07 pm
michelangelo antonioni
Blowup was one of those films that changed how I look at cinema, and then how I imagined performance. Early …
April 19, 2007 – 10:47 am
dance for obsessive-compulsives
Emile is almost at the end of his winter of Rotterdam, that sent him to the Spielraum in Berlin for …
January 8, 2007 – 7:36 pm
Protected: miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule
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December 1, 2006 – 6:14 pm
2006中国(广州)国际纪录片大会 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
A bit slack lately blogging about my favourite city, Guangzhou. Yes I do love it that much. 曹斐 Cao Fei, …
October 25, 2006 – 5:25 pm
ghost eyes: strange visions from hong kong and beyond
From curator of international kebabs Emile Zile, also famous in Melbourne for FOOTSCRAY AUDIO-VISUAL SOCIAL CLUB is the fruits of …
September 13, 2006 – 2:41 pm
temperance – photos from rhys
Lucky that almost a gig of photos that Rhys took during the filming on Sunday turned up this morning, or …
September 11, 2006 – 9:13 am
temperance – 16mm anamorphic zeiss porn
Sunday was a smooth rush through six minutes of dancing bookended by a 7am stagger out of bed and a …
September 6, 2006 – 7:24 pm
temperance – a stranger knocks at his door; fang decides to kill him
When I was using Life Forms as my main tool for choreography, one of the best things about it was …
September 3, 2006 – 4:02 pm
temperance – monster curves
When I was a student at VCA, I somehow blagged a copy of William Forsythe’s Improvisation Technologies which was largely …
September 1, 2006 – 4:13 pm
temperance – Théodicée
In The System of the World, demented Jesuit fanatic Édouard de Gex is meditating on Satanists, and to paraphrase says …
August 30, 2006 – 4:38 pm
temperance
The last couple of days have been intensely busy, usually to the degree that dinner doesn’t happen, and even climbing …
August 21, 2006 – 9:14 pm
I know that I AM
Today was emotionally really shitty, the kind of day I want to finish by getting wasted, all teen-punk angst. Lucky …
May 27, 2006 – 3:13 pm
Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Outside of my normal flippant abrogation of its meaning, there are not too many people for whom I genuinely reserve …
May 22, 2006 – 11:08 am
extermination – soundscape movement fest
Darling Alexis, whom I met in Vienna in 2003 at DanceWEB has been busy in the past few days being …
April 17, 2006 – 11:55 pm
narcoleptic shemale attempts blog…
It started with Hanzi Smatter‘s year-old piece on someone who’d got 妖 tattooed on their neck, which might mean “charming” …
April 14, 2006 – 1:56 am
apocalypse guangzhou
Paul Emmanuel, Emile Zile and I are having a screening of a bunch of short films of ours on Sunday …
March 31, 2006 – 9:40 pm
A Crab on Uranus Means You’re Loved …
… Or, no talent is no longer enough. Last night I discovered to my horror I’m alive 30 years too …
February 25, 2006 – 1:37 pm
p.k.14 – a tour of the public kingdom
It’s time to think about China and Guangzhou again as I’ll be in Hong Kong in two weeks and spending …
February 23, 2006 – 5:13 pm
love this time and other berlin gems
The 56th Berlin Film Festival has just finished, and major yay! for Jasmila Zbanic’s Grbavica and Michael Winterbottom and Mat …
February 22, 2006 – 5:09 pm
buck angel – i’m old greg … i got something to show you …
Buck Angel is a sex pig. I thought so last year when he and Allanah Starr made shemale porn spectacular, …
February 16, 2006 – 3:29 pm
sex porn art casting shock ban!
I think I’m becoming a one-trick whore for we-make-money-not-art, because all I seem to do right now is read them …
December 29, 2005 – 3:18 pm
先锋光芒 – ray of the avante garde
Guangzhou’s 广州中华影城 Zhonghua Cinema is running a festival of recent Chinese films, 先锋光芒–中国青年导演电影展映（柏林篇）Ray of the Avante Garde – Chinese Young …
December 3, 2005 – 2:10 pm
a night at loft 345
Last night I went down to Loft345, which used to be Park19 (because it was number 19 whatever lane and …
November 1, 2005 – 1:16 am
176*144 – i took my time …
The project I started in Taiwan which didn’t go anywhere because Taipei didn’t have a 3G mobile phone network has …
October 31, 2005 – 4:53 am
冬蔭功 tom yum goong meet jin xing
As usual I’m totally behind the times. I’m not sure how long ago it was released, but Prachya Pinkaew, director …
October 27, 2005 – 5:24 pm
behind the scenes
Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln is calling for entries of dance film documentaries for the 2006 Behind the Scenes Festival. The film …
October 26, 2005 – 5:12 pm
跳格 – Jumping Frames 2006
JUMPING FRAMES@HKDF2006, the Hong Kong Dance Video Festival that is part of the Hong Kong Dance Festival is open for …
September 25, 2005 – 7:42 pm
a bunch of stuff i’ve been reading
Rehearsals are making it a bit difficult for me to focus here, so instead of wading through what has become …
September 17, 2005 – 6:04 pm
buck & allanah – the universe makes sense
I think this entry is gonna generate huge quantities of spam, considering just how much people like coming here for …
September 13, 2005 – 5:19 am
i m P A C T 05 – Tracing Translation – Symposium
PACT Zollverein have announced a call for participant for i m P A C T 05 – Tracing Translation – …
September 1, 2005 – 5:42 am
sadomania
One of my all-time favourite directors, and I say this with utter seriousness, because people usually laugh at me when …
August 25, 2005 – 5:54 am
crazy for digital
The current state of film in China and Hong Kong, mostly triad good-cop/bad-cop or period piece fantastical martial arts sewerage …
August 14, 2005 – 10:31 pm
zeroballet bitches extermination
After much pissing around, I thought it was time to dump some more narrow-band choking content on the dance side …
August 14, 2005 – 9:46 pm
eurodisney.cn
Emile thinks he’s being pretty bloody clever. EURODISNEY.CN. Oh ha ha. I told him to expect a visit from scabrous …
August 6, 2005 – 9:02 pm
China’s indie doco scene
I missed the 2nd 同性恋电影节 Beijing International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival a couple of months ago, but City Weekend …
July 25, 2005 – 10:30 pm
shadetreemechanic at the body festival
In all the rush to get on and do nothing, I forgot completely that my film, shadetreemechanic was screened on …
June 16, 2005 – 8:39 pm
淹沒 before the flood
I missed this one completely. 淹沒Before the Flood was screened in Guangzhou on the weekend. It’s also at the Los …
June 15, 2005 – 7:09 pm
sixth generation film
Wang Xiaoshuai’s Beijing Bicycle was a bit of an underground hit a couple of years ago – not that I …
June 10, 2005 – 2:23 am
extermination at park19
Last year when extermination got performed, we also made a film. It’s been lurking, several rolls of 16mm, slowly going …
June 9, 2005 – 3:16 pm
stm at the body global
My first dance film, shadetreemechanic made by sea-dog Paul Williams and the divine Anna Smallwood and Joanne Collins is going …
June 8, 2005 – 2:34 pm
hot babes ice tea
Not that I wanna be advertising ice tea unless it’s fine Chinese 冰红茶 or 枕木‘s Long Island Ice Tea served …
April 21, 2005 – 7:36 pm
agnes and his brothers
The Goethe Institute is currently screening a bunch of new German films in the Festival of German Films 05 including …
April 19, 2005 – 8:03 pm
shadetreemechanic in The Body Global
I’ve had no internet the last few days, which is a bit like having my kidney removed, leaves me weak …
April 15, 2005 – 7:43 pm
cutting extermination
One of the things I came back to Australia for was the editing of the 16mm film of extermination from …
April 12, 2005 – 10:15 pm
shashwati talukdar
The guy who makes the amazing ecto, which gives me blogging pleasure on a daily basis started a ‘blog of …
April 2, 2005 – 4:34 pm
the age of the grotesque
Another day of reading magazines at The Wall in East St Kilda, and one of the best images of the …
April 2, 2005 – 10:11 am
天邊一朵雲 – The Wayward Cloud
Taiwan film-maker 蔡明亮 Tsai Ming-liang’s porn musical 天邊一朵雲 – The Wayward Cloud opened un-cut though with an adult rating in …
March 27, 2005 – 11:50 am
小城之春 – The best Chinese-language movies of all time
The Hong Kong Film Awards have voted 小城之春 Spring in a Small Town, directed by Fei Mu as the number …
March 24, 2005 – 11:56 am
we have decided not to die
The absolute best photographs I saw last year, and definitely in the top 10 of all time were We Have …
March 22, 2005 – 6:10 pm
tropical malady
More good queer and just strange films coming out of Thailand. This month, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s most recent film Sud Pralad …
March 22, 2005 – 5:31 pm
para/site messes with lenses
Parasite Art Space in Sheung Wan opened Take a ST/Roll 圓．遊．會 earlier this month, which is running until mid-April and …
March 17, 2005 – 1:53 pm
조승우 cho seung-woo plays hedwig
Korean actor 조승우 Cho Seung-Woo, fresh off the musical Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the film Marathon is about …
January 5, 2005 – 7:49 pm
6 years of documentaries
Last month Taipei had the hype of 台北金馬影展 Golden Horse Film Festival and the much less hyped 台灣國際紀錄片雙年展 Taiwan International …
December 13, 2004 – 3:20 pm
the white diamond
Werner Herzog’s new film opened the 台灣國際紀錄片雙年展 Taiwan International Documentary Festival on Saturday. Last night under clouds that threatened rain …
December 12, 2004 – 2:38 pm
saturday art special
There’s so much art on at the moment, I missed the opening of the Taiwan International Documentary Festival yesterday. It …
December 8, 2004 – 5:34 pm
176*144 – performance art for 3G phones
My next project in Taipei is performance 3G mobile phones. With Big Brother in Australia getting on the bandwagon with …
December 6, 2004 – 3:22 pm
台北金馬影展 golden horse film fest awards
The best film award in the 台北金馬影展 Golden Horse Film Festival has gone to a mainland China film portraying life …
December 5, 2004 – 6:12 pm
antonioni in china
Having made some of the most striking films of the new wave in L’Avventura, then setting The Yardbirds on fire …
December 5, 2004 – 4:26 pm
what i read this week
Back for another wash-cycle of what happened in Asia this week (that I read about), and no matter what else …
December 5, 2004 – 1:49 pm
第二屆新樂園跨領域藝術節 SLY art 2nd new field art festival
The group exhibition I am part of at SLY Art Studio opened this evening, with much eating drinking and music …
November 18, 2004 – 4:50 pm
shunji iwai
Filmmaker Shunji Iwai is having a screening of four of his films in Taipei over the next two weeks. Not …
November 13, 2004 – 6:14 pm
ned in taipei
Last night was the opening of the 2004 Australian Film Festival in Taipei down at the Leofoo Cineplex put together …
October 3, 2004 – 11:10 pm
2046 in china
Wong Kar-wai’s latest, four years in the making masterpiece, 2046 has just opened in China in time for the moon-cake …
September 29, 2004 – 10:57 pm
faster pussycat kill! kill!
Russ Meyer died earlier this week. A one-man film industry, Meyer wrote, directed, produced and edited some 23 features, starting …
September 26, 2004 – 1:57 pm
lesbians wanted for documentary
I saw this at Wrong Place Right Time in Hong Kong, and I’m posting it here again because I get …
September 18, 2004 – 9:12 pm
the great challenge
Julien Seri, the director of Yamasaki – les samourai des temps modernes which is not much of a samurai film …
September 3, 2004 – 1:22 am
zatoichi – takeshi kitano
One of my favourite actor/directorsTakeshi Kitano’s latest film Zatochi opens in Australia today, and was reviewed on At The Movies …
September 3, 2004 – 12:58 am
“Let the bodies hit the floor…that was the motto for our tank.”
Last night the ABC screened one of the most disturbing documentaries I’ve seen in a long while. Soundtrack To War …
August 31, 2004 – 10:51 pm
vincent gallo – the brown bunny
Hero of Buffalo 66, Vincent Gallo, who single-handedly resurrected 70′s prog-rockers Yes has just had his new film The Brown …
August 22, 2004 – 1:12 am
陳果 – 三更二之一: 餃子 Fruit Chan – Dumplings
陳果 Fruit Chan’s latest movie, 餃子 Dumplings has just opened in Hong Kong, one third of a horror series Three …
July 31, 2004 – 10:44 pm
comrades at trainspotting
This weekend at trainspotting in Beijing, there’s a mini-festival of queer films from China. If the sight of two men …
July 26, 2004 – 12:11 am
hidden hero – the films of chang cheh
The Melbourne International Film Festival has just started, and amidst more good celluloid outside of your local 6 kuai DVD …
July 19, 2004 – 10:35 pm
the heart is deceitful above all things
JT Leroy I started reading in Toronto early last year, somewhere between William Burroughs early novels, the bleakness of James …
July 7, 2004 – 6:50 pm
崔子恩 《丑角登场》 Cui Zi’en – Enter The Clowns
Something I wish I’d known about last time I was in China are the films of Cui Zi’en. There is …
July 3, 2004 – 5:03 pm
海洋熱 – ocean fever
Director Chen Lung-nan’s rock n’ roll documentary of a bunch of underground bands playing at the Gong-liao Ho-Hai-Yan Rock Festival …
July 3, 2004 – 4:42 pm
korean queer culture festival
The 2004 Korea Queer Culture Festival was held in Seoul last month, along with the queer film festival, which received …
June 27, 2004 – 9:06 pm
films at 798 factories
798 Factories, the gallery/bookshop/bar scene in Beijing in a glorious old East German high-modernist arms factory screened two films last …
June 15, 2004 – 1:39 pm
artv
Anyone watching SBS late at night might wonder “what-the-fuck is Connex (or whatever the trains are called now) pushing?” when …
June 13, 2004 – 12:16 am
taiwan animation at annecy film festival
The Annecy International Film Festival in France is presenting a special programme devoted to Taiwan animation, Welcome Taiwan. Among the …
June 7, 2004 – 1:56 am
Hearts of Iron and Ken Park
The story of Hearts of Iron and China’s irony-free Ministry of Culture has been small print for a couple of …
June 4, 2004 – 9:57 pm
onedotzero in Beijing + Shanghai
China Daily has a piece on onedotzero the festival of digital film making its way to Beijing and Shanghai in …
May 30, 2004 – 1:06 am
Time of Disasters
Sick of watching Hollywood beat the crap out of New York in every disaster movie from ,Towering Inferno to The …
May 29, 2004 – 1:45 am
Gozu and Casshein
Two films which are doing the rounds at the moment, Gozu by Ichi The Killer director Takashi Miike, and Casshern …
May 23, 2004 – 2:23 pm
Maggie Cheung Best Actress at Cannes
张曼玉 Maggie Cheung has won best actress award at Cannes for her role in French film Clean, directed by Olivier …
May 17, 2004 – 2:27 pm
好死不如赖活着 To Live Is Better Than to Die
In the early 90′s poor farmers across rural China made a few extra kuai by selling their blood. The syringes …
May 14, 2004 – 1:47 am
江湖 Jianghu banned
Eric Tsang has had 江湖 Jianghu banned in China, the triad movie he hoped would reinvent the genre. Tsang chose …
May 10, 2004 – 10:41 pm
Wenders, Xue, Laib at 广东美术馆 GDMoA
While Beijing has 大山子艺术节 Dashanzi Yishu Jie – Dashanzi Art Festival at 798 Group Factories, Guangzhou is also going art-crazy …
May 8, 2004 – 4:30 am
跳格 Tiaoge – Jumping Frames
跳格Tiaoge Jumping Frames, the Hong Kong Dance Video project between 城市當代舞蹈團 – chengshi dangdai wudao tuan CCDC and Videotage is …
May 8, 2004 – 2:15 am
The Blessed
Writer and director Darren Markey is having a screening of the pilot film of The Blessed, on Friday 21st May. …
May 3, 2004 – 9:55 pm
八九点钟的太阳 Morning Sun, A Documentary Film
Asialink is presenting the premiere screening in Melbourne next week of 八九点钟的太阳 bajiudian de taiyan – Morning Sun, on Tuesday …
April 24, 2004 – 12:31 am
2046 nominated for Cannes Film Fest
王家卫 Wong Kar Wai, director of some of my favourite films including Fallen Angels has had his mysterious science-fiction romance …
April 22, 2004 – 10:19 pm
Ivo Dimtchev
Ivo is a god from Sophia, another one of the beautiful people I met at DanceWEB last year. Together we …
April 20, 2004 – 11:38 pm
Jumping Frames
Jumping Frames is the collaboration between Hong kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company and videotage, aiming to bring together people from …