Documentary
174 articles
Stirring Up Spectres: Ben Lawrence’s Ghosthunter and the Documentarian’s Duty of Care
Giving Time: Richard Todd’s Dying to Live and Organ Donation
Lives Adrift: Julian Burnside and Judy Rymer on Border Politics
Jumping Hurdles: Rehabilitation, Reconnection and Catherine Scott’s BackTrack Boys
For Richer or Poorer: Marriage, Market Economics and Olivia Martin-McGuire’s China Love
Power and the Personality: Ray Argall’s Midnight Oil: 1984
As Long as You Love Me: Jessica Leski’s I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story
Obstructed Progress: Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow and the Global Refugee Crisis
Echoes of Tradition: Paul Williams’ Elegy for Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Creation in the Cutting Room: Jill Bilcock on the Art of Film Editing
Portrait of a Man Condemned: Matthew Sleeth’s Guilty
Colonial Inquest: Les McLaren and Annie Stiven’s Life Is a Very Strange Thing
Singing One’s Story: Keeping Custom and Country in Westwind: Djalu’s Legacy
‘Don’t Do It Again’: Hearing, Seeing and Deep Listening in After the Apology
Changing Tides: Karina Holden’s Blue, the Enviro-doc and Conservationism
High Price Tag: Art and Absolution in Have You Seen the Listers?
Too Far North: The Self-serving Cinema Vérité of Atlantis, Iceland
Living in America: Expression, Representation and Kate Hickey’s Roller Dreams
Songlines on Screen: Naina Sen’s The Song Keepers and Aboriginal Histories
A Story of Man and Country: Sera Davies’ Namatjira Project
Ghost House: Rewriting the ‘Haunted’ Narrative in Florian Habicht’s Spookers
Life Laid Bare: Sascha Ettinger Epstein’s The Pink House and the Sex Industry
Band Apart: Music, Memory and Kriv Stenders’ The Go-Betweens: Right Here
Untrustworthy Images, Disguised Fictions: Kitty Green’s Casting JonBenet
Forged by Fire: Food, Family and Culture in Matthew Salleh’s Barbecue
Darkness Calls: Robert Nugent’s Night Parrot Stories and Contemporary Documentary Making
Portrait of the Artist: Sue Clothier Discusses James Bogle’s Whiteley
PACmentality: Luke Walker on American Politics and Observational Documentary
Stranger in One’s Own Home: Rithy Panh’s Exile
Tragedy and Levity: Philippe Mora, Family History and Monsieur Mayonnaise
A Life in Chains: Servant or Slave and Aboriginal Subjugation
Dog Day, Every Day: Gillian Leahy’s Baxter and Me and the Essay Film
Haunted by Questions Unanswered: Rosie Jones’ The Family
Their Time in Memorial: Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe’s Remembering the Man
The Tyranny of the Unspoken: The Silences, Autoethnography and Mental Health
Culture, Interrupted: Molly Reynolds’ Another Country
Beautiful Women and No Mirrors: Gillian Armstrong’s Women He’s Undressed
Clarifying the Past: Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence
