Culture

Filmmaker Robynne Murphy is inspired by the collective genesis of a painting by sisters Lorraine Brown and Narelle Thomas.

The socially engaged theatre work Truth to Power Café gives poignant political expression to lived experiences.

The devastating impact of climate change on rural villagers is explored in two films from India’s border regions.

The dangerous edge of Nicolas Cage’s screen performances finds a generous complexity in the otherwise indifferent film Pig.

Their intense collaboration has seen Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine commingle the sacred and profane.

As befitted such a place, we coexisted there with other creatures: translucent geckos in the corners of the rooms; fat grasshoppers on the deck; fruit bats in the dusk fig tree; brush turkeys skidding across the road; and George the white cat, slinking in with something not-quite-dead between her dainty teeth. If we left the louvres open, a big brushtail possum climbed in to share our food, crouching like a squat grey Buddha in the fruit bowl, a banana clutched between his sharp front claws, a contemptuous expression on his toothy face. He would only clamber out when we shook the furry end of the broom at him.

Tina Havelock Stevens says Gimme Shelter, the classic 1970 documentary about The Rolling Stones, shows her something different every time she watches it.

The 36th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards on display in Darwin amply demonstrates the range and quality of contemporary First Nations visual art.

Netflix’s The Chair finds plenty of comic targets as it explores the insidious structural harms of contemporary academic life.

Despite a promising beginning, Leos Carax’s Annette becomes a jumble of styles that falls back on stale, melodramatic tropes.