Culture

In his new album, Australian contemporary composer Jonathon Crompton explores memory and nostalgia through baroque-inspired improvisations.

Its vaulting civic space makes Archer Office’s redevelopment of the Bondi Junction Boot Factory a building of aspiration.

On the eve of his Australian tour, Marlon Williams discusses how his very personal fourth album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka, brings together the different facets of his life.

Occasionally he addresses his subjects in their towns or villages, smiling down at them from the stage. He is struck – during a speech at a well-manicured park – by a young child clutching a placard adorned with his official portrait. Their eyes meet and they chuckle at her clumsy attempt to clap while holding the sign – a dimple forming on just one of her perfect little cheeks. He is far, far away by the time the girl sees the sponge block the sunlight from her town.

La cocina, an adaptation of Arnold Wesker’s 1957 play The Kitchen, is an exploration of migrant worker misery sharpened by the political environment in America today.

The game Expelled! is a rich addition to the wayward schoolgirl genre of visual novel, despite the odd frustrating moment.

Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s promising film Hysteria raises many salient questions about responsibility in making films but goes awry when it turns into a thriller.