PODCAST: ABC 774 – 26th June

In this week’s Friday Film segment I chat with Raf about the animation prequel Minions, from director/voice artist Pierre Coffin, and the controversial documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief from filmmaker Alex Gibney, on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne.

PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – September 30th

In this week’s edition of Plato’s Cave the team offer a critical look at Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell, the biopic Lovelace and John Boorman’s 2001 release, The Tailor of Panama (DVD). With Josh Nelson, Tara Judah and Thomas Caldwell. Plato’s Cave – September 30th Episode (.MP3)

ANALYSIS: Opening Pandora’s Box: The Voice and Technology in The King’s Speech

The voice is elusive. Once you’re eliminated everything that is not the voice itself – the body that houses it, the words it carries, the notes it sings, the traits by which it defines a speaking person, and the timbres that colour it, what’s left? What a strange object, what grist for poetic outpourings… – […]